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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.
cIt is a grand mistake for any to account nothing Gospel, but the New-Testament: Indeed the greatest part of the Old-Testament is Gospel, containing the Gracious Transactions of God with fallen Man: Now wherever such a thing is made mention of, it must needs come under the tenor of the New-Covenant, the first being made weak by the Sin of Man, & no ways able to help him, Gal. 3. 21. Which could have given Life viz. to fallen Man. Moreover the scope of this whole Psalm, is evangelical, namely, to represent God to us acting in the application of the mercies of the Covenant of Grace, Pardon, Forgiveness, Pity, tender Care, &c.
cIt is a grand mistake for any to account nothing Gospel, but the New-Testament: Indeed the greatest part of the Old-Testament is Gospel, containing the Gracious Transactions of God with fallen Man: Now wherever such a thing is made mention of, it must needs come under the tenor of the New-Covenant, the first being made weak by the Sin of Man, & no wayes able to help him, Gal. 3. 21. Which could have given Life viz. to fallen Man. Moreover the scope of this whole Psalm, is evangelicall, namely, to represent God to us acting in the application of the mercies of the Covenant of Grace, Pardon, Forgiveness, Pity, tender Care, &c.
- cVide Synops. pur Theol. Disput. 22. S. 13, 14. &c. Poedus Evangelicum vel vetus est, vel novum Maccov.
Object. But if fearing God, keeping his Covenant, ⟨p. 5⟩doing his Commandments be here conditions of this Promise, then it is legal, for these are Works.