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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.
Thus of the nature of a Covenant, as to the essentials of it: but for our more full and clear understanding, we may consider that there may be some accidental difference between one Covenant and another, according to the different capacity of the Parties: we may therefore observe this one distinction of the Covenant, viz.
iSome Covenants are made between equals on equal terms, others are made between superiors and inferiors; which occasions a great difference in Covenants.
iSome Covenants are made between equals on equal termes, others are made between superiours and inferiours; which occasions a great difference in Covenants.
- iFoedus est par, vel impar Kecker.
I. Some are made between equals upon equal terms, which parity or equality I understand not, with any reference to their personal capacity, but only as they stand under or related to the Covenant transaction: and then are both Parties equal, when in their dealing and obligations they stand upon equal or even ground, which is,
I. Some are made between equals upon equal termes, which parity or equality I understand not, with any reference to their personal capacity, but only as they stand under or related to the Covenant transaction: and then are both Parties equal, when in their dealing and obligations they stand upon equal or even ground, which is,