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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. What hath God been doing upon the account of His Covenant in this Land? Israel in Psal. 78. begin. Were obliged to tell their Children God's Acts that they might learn not to disobey: And we have abundance to say of God's doings to this People, both of mercy and judgement. Whiles these Churches served God in uprightness, He made all their ways to prosper, and their very Enemies to be at peace with them. How did He Plant, and Water, and increase those mean beginnings which at first were, till we began to grow considerable? Thus God minded His Covenant. And what hath been the language of all the adverse and humbling providences that have since befallen the Land, but to give a testimony of God's Covenant-controversy which He had with us? The doctrine which these dealings of God with us, teach, is thus much; that our only way to prosperity is to be true to God and His Covenant, but that, if we will deal falsely with God, He will take vengeance on our inventions: It speaks this to the next Generation, and bids them be sure take heed to themselves that they keep close to the Covenant of their God.
2. What hath God been doing upon the account of His Covenant in this Land? Israel in Psal. 78. begin. Were obliged to tell their Children God's Acts that they might learn not to disobey: And we have abundance to say of God's doings to this People, both of mercy and judgement. Whiles these Churches served God in uprightness, He made all their wayes to prosper, and their very Enemies to be at peace with them. How did He Plant, and Water, and increase those mean beginnings which at first were, till we began to grow considerable? Thus God minded His Covenant. And what hath been the language of all the adverse and humbling providences that have since befallen the Land, but to give a testimony of God's Covenant-controversie which He had with us? The doctrine which these dealings of God with us, teach, is thus much; that our only way to prosperity is to be true to God and His Covenant, but that, if we will deal falsly with God, He will take vengeance on our inventions: It speakes this to the next Generation, and bids them be sure take heed to themselves that they keep close to the Covenant of their God.