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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. God will not accept of, but severely punish all ⟨p. 139⟩heartless and hypocritical Covenanters with him. It must needs add to Sin, and not mitigate it, to think to cover it over with a falsifying Covenant. God may (to make known his patience and compassion) bear with such long and often, thus he did with these, as the Context shows: But yet he doth remember, and will recompense all the deceitful and false dealings of a Covenant-People. Men may say, and promise, and vow as fairly as they will, but if their hearts be not right, God will not hear them, but fall upon them in his wrath: See, Isa. 58. begin. Ezek. 14. begin.
3. God will not accept of, but severely punish all ⟨p. 139⟩heartless and hypocritical Covenanters with him. It must needs add to Sin, and not mitigate it, to think to cover it over with a falsifying Covenant. God may (to make known his patience and compassion) bear with such long and often, thus he did with these, as the Context shews: But yet he doth remember, and will recompense all the deceitful and false dealings of a Covenant-People. Men may say, and promise, and vow as fairly as they will, but if their hearts be not right, God will not hear them, but fall upon them in his wrath: See, Isa. 58. begin. Ezek. 14. begin.
2. From our selves Covenanting with God.