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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.
2. The Covenant of Grace was every way suited to the condition of fallen Man, who having lost the Stock and Estate, the trust whereof was at the first committed to him, and now become utterly Bankrupt, and no ways able to set Up again of himself, must have indulgence shown him, and help afforded to him, otherwise he is ruined for ever, and it is therefore principally said to be of Grace, because the whole contrivance of it in all things, as it respects the objects, namely Man, is absolutely free. Man was a forfeited Creature into the hands of revenging Justice, and God might have left him there for ever, and done him no more but his right, it was then great Grace to stoop to make a New Covenant with Him: and the whole frame of it, in all the parts of its Constitution is so considered and stated as carries with it a manifest demonstration of the Riches of Grace.
2. The Covenant of Grace was every way suited to the condition of fallen Man, who having lost the Stock and Estate, the trust whereof was at the first committed to him, and now become utterly Bankrupt, and no wayes able to set Ʋp again of himself, must have indulgence shown him, and help afforded to him, otherwise he is ruined for ever, and it is therefore principally said to be of Grace, because the whole contrivance of it in all things, as it respects the objects, namely Man, is absolutely free. Man was a forfeited Creature into the hands of revenging Justice, and God might have left him there for ever, and done him no more but his right, it was then great Grace to stoop to make a New Covenant with Him: and the whole frame of it, in all the parts of its Constitution is so considered and stated as carries with it a manifest demonstration of the Riches of Grace.
That these two Covenants are not only diverse, but opposite, the Scripture seems to declare, though this being the opposition of Species, there are many things in ⟨p. 17⟩which they do agree; and there have been dangerous errors which have arose from mistakes in this point: It may not then be amiss for prevention here to put in two or three Considerations.