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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. Though the Covenant of Redemption was a Covenant of Grace, respecting the design and subject it aimed at, and that both on God's Part, and on Christ's Part, both of them conspiring, and proposing the recovery of fallen Man, from a state of misery without any merit of his own; yet in the true nature of it, as it was made between the Parties Covenanting, it was a rigid and strict Covenant of Works: If we consider what the Redeemer ⟨p. 23⟩was to do for the procuring of Salvation for His People: Jesus Christ, standing in our room and stead, undertook and engaged to perform every tittle of the first Covenant: He did not assume a Lordship over it to abrogate it, but became a subject of it to fulfil it, Mat. 5. 17. and upon this account, or on these conditions He was to receive His reward: the conditions that were laid upon Him were Works: It was by Obedience that He was to Redeem us, Rom. 5 19. By the Obedience of One, viz. Christ. Hence all the Sins of the Elect were laid upon Him, and He was fain to bear them, else He had not born them away from us, Isa. 53. 3, 8, 11. But the Covenant of Reconciliation is grounded upon terms and conditions, which are in their own nature gracious: Hence, the Apostle tells us, It is of Faith that it might he of Grace, Rom. 4. 16. In the one of these there is a perfect Righteousness to be completely performed, but in the other there is a Righteousness already wrought to be accepted and laboured in.
3. Though the Covenant of Redemption was a Covenant of Grace, respecting the designe and subject it aimed at, and that both on God's Part, and on Christ's Part, both of them conspiring, and proposing the recovery of fallen Man, from a state of misery without any merit of his own; yet in the true nature of it, as it was made between the Parties Covenanting, it was a rigid and strict Covenant of Works: If we consider what the Redeemer ⟨p. 23⟩was to do for the procuring of Salvation for His People: Jesus Christ, standing in our room and stead, undertook and engaged to perform every tittle of the first Covenant: He did not assume a Lordship over it to abrogate it, but became a subject of it to fulfill it,