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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.
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.
Ʋnder 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 externall dispensation of it among such a People as are in visible Covenant with God: and this differs from the same Covenant according to the internall dispensation of it, in these thing.
1. In the One, the Covenant is firmly established, and unalterably, God is become the God & portion of the ⟨p. 27⟩Soul that hopes and believes in him, and Believers are made His People really, the soul is made to believe, the Covenant is firmly settled, and unmoveably: whereas in the other it is only propounded with the command and threatening on God's Part, and on the other hand as only outwardly & professedly asserted & submitted to by those concerned, and that oftentimes deceitfully, Psal. 73. 35, 36, 37. not but that many in the visible Covenant have more than outwardly assented to it. True Believers give not only their hands, but their hearts also to God, but that refers to the internal and not the visible dispensation of the Covenant.
1. In the One, the Covenant is firmly established, and unalterably, God is become the God & portion of the ⟨p. 27⟩Soul that hopes and believes in him, and Beleevers are made His People really, the soul is made to believe, the Covenant is firmly settled, and unmoveably: whereas in the other it is only propounded with the command and threatning on God's Part, and on the other hand as only outwardly & professedly asserted & submitted to by those concerned, and that oftentimes deceitfully, Psal. 73. 35, 36, 37. not but that many in the visible Covenant have more than outwardly assented to it. True Beleevers give not only their hands, but their hearts also to God, but that referes to the internall and not the visible dispensation of the Covenant.