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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.
3. Yea, Man's Salvation is so contrived in the Covenant of Grace, that the Justice of the first, and the Mercy of the second, the Righteousness of the first, and the Peace of the second, do entertain each the other with mutual embraces of perfect amity, Psal. 85. 10, 11. And herein indeed are manifested the unsearchable depths of infinite Wisdom, that the Covenant of ⟨p. 18⟩Works is not laid by as an useless thing, but is acknowledged in all its claims and challenges; yea, and Gloriously, Triumphantly Exalted, and yet the People of God removed out of harms way, and no whit endangered by it, as being not personally under the Law, but under Grace, Rom. 6. 14. But I proceed.
3. Yea, Man's Salvation is so contrived in the Covenant of Grace, that the Justice of the first, and the Mercy of the second, the Righteousness of the first, and the Peace of the second, do entertain each the other with mutuall embraccs of perfect amity, Psal. 85. 10, 11. And herein indeed are manifested the unsearchable depths of infinite Wisdome, that the Covenant of ⟨p. 18⟩Works is not laid by as an useless thing, but is acknowledged in all its claimes and challenges; yea, and Gloriously, Triumphantly Exalted, and yet the People of God removed out of harms way, and no whit endangered by it, as being not personally under the Law, but under Grace, Rom. 6. 14. But I proceed.
That Covenant which is now under consideration, is the second, or New-Covenant, or Covenant of Grace, in which only it is that the everlasting Mercy of God breaks forth and appears to the Children of Men, now fallen from the obedience of the first.