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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.
II. Give me leave in the next place to speak a few words in particular to those that are the Children of the Covenant, and so I shall close this discourse: And let these carefully receive, and lay up in their hearts these few things. You here see the way for you either to keep or lose these Covenant-Mercies. Be therefore persuaded to know your Duty, and carefully to set your selves to perform it. If you would have your Father's God continue to be yours, you must make it your study and business to know and serve Him. Solemn was David's advice to his Son Solomon, 1 Chro. 28. 9. Besides the general motives which were propounded at the beginning of this Use. I would leave a few special Considerations with you, God grant you may receive the impression of them.
II. Give me leave in the next place to speak a few words in particular to those that are the Children of the Covenant, and so I shall close this discourse: And let these carefully receive, and lay up in their hearts these few things. You here see the way for you either to keep or lose these Covenant-Mercyes. Be therefore perswaded to know your Duty, and carefully to set your selves to perform it. If you would have your Father's God continue to be yours, you must make it your study and business to know and serve Him. Solemn was David's advice to his Son Solomon, 1 Chro. 28. 9. Besides the general motives which were propounded at the beginning of this Ʋse. I would leave a few special Considerations with you, God grant you may receive the impression of them.
1. The main errand which brought your Fathers into this Wilderness, was not only that they might themselves enjoy, but that they might settle for their Children, and leave them in full possession of the free, pure, and uncorrupted liberties of the Covenant of Grace. They have made this Profession openly to the World: yea, let reason speak, and say, what else was there which could have tempted them to come into a Land which was not sown, leaving the pleasant enjoyments of a good Land, and of which many of them had a good share, running through so many hazards, wrestling with so many hardships, not expecting (and it would have seemed vain and presumptuous to have expected) any worldly advantage, or likelihood of any other compensation for such expenses as they were at, and difficulties they broke through, but only this? And if