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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.
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,
1. When the obligation is not only mutual, but also interchangeable, viz. when each of the Parties stands alike bound, both to conditions and consequents, and this is a complicate Covenant, when the performance of it is requisite from, and the thence arising profit or loss is to fall upon both alike; of this nature or kind we are to account all Leagues offensive and defensive which are made between Kingdoms, or Colonies, no ways depending one upon another, but by acts of friendship: such also are Marriage-Covenants; for, although the Parties are in some respect unequal, yet the obligation to duty, and the benefits arising, are interchangeable.
1. When the obligation is not only mutual, but also enterchangeable, viz. when each of the Parties stands alike bound, both to conditions and consequents, and this is a complicate Covenant, when the performance of it is requisite from, and the thence arising profite or loss is to fall upon both alike; of this nature or kind we are to account all Leagues offensive and defensive which are made between Kingdoms, or Colonies, no wayes depending one upon another, but by acts of friendship: such also are Marriage-Covenants; for, although the Parties are in some respect unequal, yet the obligation to duty, and the benefits arising, are interchangeable.