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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.
4. In the one the Believer is fully discharged from any challenge of the Covenant of Works, the Law hath not any more claim to hold him under, Rom. 6. 14. Ye are not under the Law, i, e. As a Covenant, else Believers are under the Law as a Rule. In the other, a Man may be still held captive of the Law, and lie open to condemnation, only a deliverance is promised to him on conditions, Job. 3. 13. For it is certain none can deliver us from the Law, but Christ, and He delivers none but those that fly to Him, and place their trust in Him: if Men be not found in Christ, more then by a visible claim, the Law will seize upon them.
4. In the one the Beleever is fully discharged from any challenge of the Covenant of Works, the Law hath not any more claim to hold him under, Rom. 6. 14. Ye are not under the Law, i, e. As a Covenant, else Beleevers are under the Law as a Rule. In the other, a Man may be still held captive of the Law, and ly open to condemnation, only a deliverance is promised to him on conditions, Job. 3. 13. For it is certain none can deliver us from the Law, but Christ, and He delivers none but those that fly to Him, and place their trust in Him: if Men be not found in Christ, more then by a visible claim, the Law will seize upon them.
5. In the one a Believer is brought under the Promises, and escaped from the danger of the threatenings: Life is assured him, and Death is removed from him, it saith he shall not dye but live, Rom. 8. 3. In Christ, i. e. by a living Faith: in the other a Person is liable to both. vers. 13. Where the Apostle directs his speech to them under the notion and consideration of visible Believers, and so they have a respect to threatenings as well as promises: and the reason is, because in the one the condition is looked upon as fulfilled (being so in part, and the whole undertaken for by Christ) Hence he is escaped the forfeiture: whereas in the other it is considered as a Covenant depending, and to issue according to the carriage of the subject.