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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. sIt may be considered according to the visible and external dispensation of it, in the way of the Gospel, as it is exhibited in the Ordinances, and given out as an Edict from God unto those to whom the Gospel is sent, and there carries in and with it the proposition of Life and Salvation, and the threatening of Death and Damnation, and these according to the tenor of terms and conditions which are therein made known: and thus extends, or bears a relation, not only to such as are true Believers, but others also, viz. Unto all those that are in the Visible Church, with there seed, professing Obedience to Gospel-Order and Ordinances. To this Covenant, or this manner of dispensation of it, true Believers have truly and properly a relation, so far as they are visible, and stand under visible Ordinances.
2. sIt may be considered according to the visible and externall dispensation of it, in the way of the Gospel, as it is exhibited in the Ordinances, and given out as an Edict from God unto those to whom the Gospel is sent, and there carries in and with it the proposition of Life and Salvation, and the threatning of Death and Damnation, and these according to the tenor of termes and conditions which are therein made known: and thus extends, or bears a relation, not only to such as are true Beleevers, but others also, viz. Ʋnto all those that are in the Visible Church, with there seed, professing Obedience to Gospel-Order and Ordinances. To this Covenant, or this manner of dispensation of it, true Beleevers have truely and properly a relation, so far as they are visible, and stand under visible Ordinances.
- sArk of Covenant, P. 394.
Under this last Consideration we are to look upon the Covenant to be presented in our text, viz. The Covenant of Reconciliation according to the visible and external dispensation of it among such a People as are in visible Covenant with God: and this differs from the same Covenant according to the internal dispensation of it, in these thing.