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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
Discourse › Pages 1-60: Covenant-Keeping the way to Blessedness.
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.
4. Hence also (the obligation being mutual) there is no Party in a Covenant that is at liberty, or stands free, but is under engagement: It is not now at his pleasure whither he will do or not do, though before it might be: Yea, God Himself, though a free Agent, and His Grace is free Grace, who might have chosen whither ever He would have come upon any terms with His Creatures; yet acknowledgeth His Covenant-engagement in which He hath bound Himself, and bids us humbly to plead it, ⟨p. 10⟩Psal. 74. 20. Neither doth this infringe, but enhance the free Grace of God, that He is thus freely bound, who might, without wrong to His Creatures have stood free.
4. Hence also (the obligation being mutual) there is no Party in a Covenant that is at liberty, or stands free, but is under engagement: It is not now at his pleasure whither he will do or not do, though before it might be: Yea, God Himself, though a free Agent, and His Grace is free Grace, who might have chosen whither ever He would have come upon any termes with His Creatures; yet acknowledgeth His Covenant-engagement in which He hath bound Himself, and bids us humbly to plead it, ⟨p. 10⟩Psal. 74. 20. Neither doth this infringe, but inhaunce the free Grace of God, that He is thus freely bound, who might, without wrong to His Creatures have stood free.
5. By reason of mutual obligation, and that with respect to performance and recompense. Hence in every Covenant there are two things always to be distinctly, and carefully considered, namely the conditions and the consequents.
5. By reason of mutual obligation, and that with respect to performance and recompence. Hence in every Covenant there are two things alwayes to be distinctly, and carefully considered, namely the conditions and the consequents.