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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.
3. Beware of rejecting or renouncing the Covenant of God: Do not cast off your subjection to it, by any wilful act of yours: And this may be done two ways.
3. Beware of rejecting or renouncing the Covenant of God: Do not cast off your subjection to it, by any wilfull act of yours: And this may be done two wayes.
1. By disowning your selves, or withdrawing from owning your selves to stand engaged to God in Covenant. Not to own is interpretatively to reject: When we withdraw the shoulder, pluck back the neck, and are not willing to submit to the Order and Ordinances of the Gospel; when Men count it a liberty to live at large, and under no Church cognizance and control, and a bondage to stoop to the ways and will of Christ in His Word: There is a great deal of this spirit amongst us: Men are loth to be so much as under any visible ties of restraint from Sin; and this provokes God to bring judgements upon us, and therefore tells us, that by them He will bring us under the bond of the Covenant. Ezek. 20. 37.
1. By disowning your selves, or withdrawing from owning your selves to stand engaged to God in Covenant. Not to own is interpretatively to reject: When we withdraw the shoulder, pluck back the neck, and are not willing to submit to the Order and Ordinances of the Gospel; when Men count it a liberty to live at large, and under no Church cognizance and controll, and a bondage to stoop to the wayes and will of Christ in His Word: There is a great deal of this spirit amongst us: Men are loth to be so much as under any visible tyes of restraint from Sin; and this provokes God to bring judgements upon us, and therefore tells us, that by them He will bring us under the bond of the Covenant. Ezek. 20. 37.