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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.
Answ. The Word is variously used in Scripture: Sometimes properly for that member in a living Creature, which is the Principal seat of Life, and first spring of Life actions. Sometimes Metaphorically for the in-side and most hidden part of a thing: So, Jonah, 2. 3. Again, by a Metonymy of the Subject, it is used for those things that have their Seat in, and Original from the Heart: Sometimes for the understanding, Prov. 10. 8. Sometimes for the Will: Jer. 3. 15. Sometimes for the affections, Pro. 14. 13. In a Word, the Soul with all its faculties is often intended by the word [Heart] And so we are here to understand it, and principally of the Will, which is Regent of all the faculties, and according to the frame whereof God Judgeth of all the actions of the Children of Men.
Answ. The Word is variously used in Scripture: Sometimes properly for that member in a living Creature, which is the Principal seat of Life, and first spring of Life actions. Sometimes Metaphorically for the in-side and most hidden part of a thing: So, Jonah, 2. 3. Agen, by a Metonimy of the Subject, it is used for those things that have their Seat in, and Original from the Heart: Sometimes for the understanding, Prov. 10. 8. Sometimes for the Will: Jer. 3. 15. Sometimes for the affections, Pro. 14. 13. In a Word, the Soul with all its faculties is often intended by the word [Heart] And so we are here to understand it, and principally of the Will, which is Regent of all the faculties, and according to the frame whereof God Judgeth of all the actions of the Children of Men.