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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.
The Psalmist, in this Psalm, after solemn attention required (and indeed nothing is of more moment to be diligently pondered then this) recounts the ancient transactions which had past between God and His Covenant People• in which, His main business is to inform us both of the Mercy and severity of God, to teach us to serve Him with fear and joy; as also in the frailty, and pronitude of a professing People to backslide and deal falsely with God; to move us to the greater care and watchfulness in all that we have to do with God in.
The Psalmist, in this Psalm, after solemn attention required (and indeed nothing is of more moment to be diligently pondered then this) recounts the ancient transactions which had past between God and His Covenant People• in which, His main business is to informe us both of the Mercy and severity of God, to teach us to serve Him with fear and joy; as also in the frailty, and pronitude of a professing People to backslide and deal •alsely with God; to move us to the greater care and watchfulness in all that we have to do with God in.
In this Historical Narrative, he first gives a general account of the ground of God's controversy and the procuring cause of the mischiefs and miseries which befell that People, vers. 9, 10, 11. From whence he proceeds to an enumeration of sundry choice and singular acts of Providence wrought in favour of them, In Egypt, and in the Wilderness: These are scattered through the whole Psalm: To which he adjoins (and by which he illustrates) the greatness of their provocation in sinning and rebelling against Him. And indeed, for a People under the special and eminent conduct of God's favour, to revolt and degenerate, is a deep dyed transgression. No wonder then if we find him interweaving the story of God's wrath, and the mischiefs which wasted and brought them low; the particulars whereof are recorded in Moses's History. And that which most of all deserves remark, is, the moderation of Divine severity, and God's remembrance of mercy in the ⟨p. 133⟩