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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.
6. Beware you do not wilfully overthrow the foundations which your Fathers have laid. I know it is one thing to be charged for doing it, & another to do it indeed: Many have been branded for this injuriously, whiles they have asserted those things, which, though believed by our Predecessors, yet there was no such occasion ⟨p. 125⟩of practice as afterward. Besides, it's certain, that no pattern or president or precept of Men is our Rule, any further then the Scripture is theirs, 1 Cor. 11. 1. But here have been good foundations laid; and there seems to be a threatening, as if those who are now grown and growing up should meet temptation to subvert and overwhelm them. Beware how you lend an hand to such a work; you shall find it a dangerous design. If any thing be wanting God shall in due time reveal it to them that wait patiently. But if you put your hands into the Wall to pluck down the Ways of Christ, a Serpent will bite them: If you destroy what your Fathers have built, expect that God will destroy you, at least make you feel the smart and bitterness of it. If Jericho could not be built without a Curse, then certainly Jerusalem cannot be undermined without a Curse.
6. Beware you do not wilfully overthrow the foundations which your Fathers have laid. I know it is one thing to be charged for doing it, & another to do it indeed: Many have been branded for this injuriously, whiles they have asserted those things, which, though believed by our Predecessours, yet there was no such occasion ⟨p. 125⟩of practice as afterward. Besides, it's certain, that no pattern or president or precept of Men is our Rule, any further then the Scripture is theirs, 1 Cor. 11. 1. But here have been good foundations laid; and there seems to be a threatning, as if those who are now grown and growing up should meet temptation to subvert and overwhelm them. Beware how you lend an hand to such a work; you shall find it a dangerous design. If any thing be wanting God shall in due time reveal it to them that wait patiently. But if you put your hands into the Wall to pluck down the Wayes of Christ, a Serpent will bite them: If you destroy what your Fathers have built, expect that God will destroy you, at least make you feel the smart and bitterness of it. If Jericho could not be built without a Curse, then certainly Jerusalem cannot be undermined without a Curse.