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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
Discourse › Pages 1-60: Covenant-Keeping the way to Blessedness.
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.
* The word Keeping, implies a watchful care: a Noun from the Verb Shamar Cannotat signifies Watch-Tower, implying that ⟨p. 4⟩it is no easy matter to keep Covenant, 1but requires care, diligence, vigilance, observation, and much pains, all which are required in a watchman
* The word Keeping, implyes a watchful care: a Noun from the Verb Shamar Cannotat signifies Watch-Tower, implying that ⟨p. 4⟩it is no easie matter to keep Covenant, 1but requires care, diligence, vigilance, observation, and much pains, all which are required in a watchman
- 1Curam, Solicitudinem, & Diligentiam, Rivet,
The text propounds a great benefit, with a condition: i. e. it tell us that there are great and glorious things to be had with God, and shows us the way in which they are to be enjoyed: and lest any should suppose this to be a legal and not evangelical proposition, let the terms of it be exactly minded, and we shall be satisfied: The promise speaks not of things to be merited, purchased, or earned by us, which are legal terms, but it speaks of Mercy: now the dispensation of everlasting Mercy belongs not to the Covenant of Works, but of Grace: the Covenant of Works hath no mention of Mercy: Besides, wherever any mention is made of favour to fallen Adam's Children, it is of Grace: The first Covenant affords no relief to these. It outreacheth the power of fallen Man to keep that Covenant, and in such a way to obtain the Promise.
The text propounds a great benefit, with a condition: i. e. it tell us that there are great and glorious things to be had with God, and shews us the way in which they are to be enjoyed: and lest any should suppose this to be a legal and not evangelical proposition, let the terms of it be exactly minded, and we shall be satisfied: The promise speakes not of things to be merited, purchased, or earned by us, which are legall terms, but it speaks of Mercy: now the dispensation of everlasting Mercy belongs not to the Covenant of Works, but of Grace: the Covenant of Works hath no mention of Mercy: Besides, wherever any mention is made of favour to fallen Adam's Children, it is of Grace: The first Covenant affords no relief to these. It outreacheth the power of fallen Man to keep that Covenant, and in such a way to obtain the Promise.