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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.
*2. Let your lives as well as your words be a conviction of Sin in your Brother: Loose and scandalous Professors are very unfit for this service. Noah's Life as well as his Preaching condemned the Old World, he that carries his Beam with him, is not fit to pluck away a Mote, Mat. 7. begin. It greatly weakens a reproof when it is applied to a Sin we daily live in commission of, and are known too much to allow in our selves. That which we not only speak against, but live contrary to, will help our reproofs to carry evidence along with them; will give them credit of our sincerity and care, with a great deal of authority.
*2. Let your lives as well as your words be a conviction of Sin in your Brother: Loose and scandalous Professours are very unfit for this service. Noah's Life as well as his Preaching condemned the Old World, he that carryes his Beam with him, is not fit to pluck away a Mote, Mat. 7. begin. It greatly weakens a reproof when it is applyed to a Sin we daily live in commission of, and are known too much to allow in our selves. That which we not only speak against, but live contrary to, will help our reproofes to carry evidence along with them; will give them credit of our sincerity and care, with a great deal of authority.
- *Non modo Accusator, sed ne Objurgator quidem ferendus est is, qui quod in altero vitium reprehendit, in eo ipse deprehenditur. Cic. in Verrem. Act. 5. Pag. 300.
3. Be as ready if occasion be given, to receive, as to minister a rebuke: There are no follies and ⟨p. 110⟩