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Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shown the connection…Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shewn the connexion…
Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shown the connection which there is between the promise, on God's part; and duty, on our part, in the covenant of grace as it was delivered in several sermons, preached in order to solemn renewing of covenant. By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.Covenant-keeping the way to blessedness, or, A brief discourse wherein is shewn the connexion which there is between the promise, on God's part; and duty, on our part, in the covenant of grace as it was delivered in several sermons, preached in order to solemn renewing of covenant. By Samuel Willard teacher of a church in Boston in New-England.
printed by James Glen for Samuel Sewall, 1682
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Consider therefore,
1 As long as you remain in unbelief, you are on that very account, Covenant-breakers; for it is the first thing required in the Covenant, viz. that we believe. It binds and obligeth us to go to Christ, and make an absolute choice of Him, and place the Hope and Trust of our Souls upon Him: Think of this, you that live & lie in a State of Unregeneracy; you break your bond as long as you thus live, and are not therefore under the Promise, but the threatening at the present: When you shall be put upon trial, whether you have kept Covenant with God, the first question will be, whither you have believed; and if this cannot be made good, there needs no more enquiry to be made, but the Case is cast against you, all the pleas you can possibly make from your Moral Obedience, or Legal Works done by you will not in the least salve it, but you will be found among, and pronounced to be workers of iniquity.
1 As long as you remain in unbelief, you are on that very account, Covenant-breakers; for it is the first thing required in the Covenant, viz. that we believe. It binds and obligeth us to go to Christ, and make an absolute choise of Him, and place the Hope and Trust of our Souls upon Him: Think of this, you that live & ly in a State of Ʋnregeneracy; you break your bond as long as you thus live, and are not therefore under the Promise, but the threatning at the present: When you shall be put upon tryal, whether you have kept Covenant with God, the first question will be, whither you have believed; and if this cannot be made good, there needs no more enquiry to be made, but the Case is cast against you, all the pleas you can possibly make from your Moral Obedience, or Legal Workes done by you will not in the least salve it, but you will be found among, and pronounced to be workers of iniquity.