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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.
3. Let all your Sins and breaches of Covenant drive you to Christ, mourning, and yet believing, for pardon and washing, He is the Surety of the Covenant, get Him engaged: He is the Fountain set open for Sin and for uncleanness. Go wash your filthy garment here, and they that are often defiled, should be often washing. Mourn after a Godly sort, that is an Index of true Repentance: But think not that your tears will wash off the filth: Believe therefore on Christ that He may do it. Repent and believe, Faith distinguisheth Repentance Evangelical from that which is Legal, it is mixed with Faith. Make Christ your Righteousness and Sanctification; and make Him your Intercessor. Bring your Sins every day to His Cross as those that are wearied and burdened with them; and He will plead the Covenant for you: Your follies shall not be laid to your charge, your iniquities shall be blotted out of His book of remembrance, sunk down as a Mill-stone in the depths of the Sea, buried in a Grave of everlasting oblivion, and God will confirm to you His everlasting Mercies.
3. Let all your Sins and breaches of Covenant drive you to Christ, mourning, and yet believing, for pardon and washing, He is the Surety of the Covenant, get Him engaged: He is the Fountain set open for Sin and for uncleanness. Go wash your filthy garment here, and they that are often defiled, should be often washing. Mourn after a Godly sort, that is an Index of true Repentance: But think not that your tears will wash off the filth: Believe therefore on Christ that He may do it. Repent and believe, Faith distinguisheth Repentance Evangelical from that which is Legal, it is mixed with Faith. Make Christ your Righteousness and Sanctification; and make Him your Intercessour. Bring your Sins every day to His Cross as those that are wearied and burdened with them; and He will plead the Covenant for you: Your follies shall not be laid to your charge, your iniquities shall be blotted out of His book of remembrance, sunk down as a Mill-stone in the depths of the Sea, buried in a Grave of everlasting oblivion, and God will confirm to you His everlasting Mercies.
2. I now come to some more particular directions for our right keeping Covenant with God. And here let me premise that it is not my purpose to descend to the most particular Rules; for we must know that Covenant-keeping is of equal extent with Gospel-obedience, and that is exceeding broad. I shall only propound some comprehensive particulars, and such as do most nearly concern us considered as a Covenanted reforming People: Such we are by profession, God grant we may be so in reality.