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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.
Quest. What is the Condition required in the Covenant of Reconciliation, considered as held forth in the visible and external dispensations of the Gospel? and when this is well ⟨p. 31⟩understood, we may easily conclude what it is to keep Covenant.
Quest. What is the Condition required in the Covenant of Reconciliation, considered as held forth in the visible and externall dispensations of the Gospell? and when this is well ⟨p. 31⟩understood, we may easily conclude what it is to keep Covenant.
Ans. But the answer of this question is not without its difficulty, partly because the way lies very narrow between Antinomian and Arminian errors, and therefore there needs the greater exactness in cutting the thread true, partly because I find Judicious and Orthodox Divines to vary in their expressions of it. But I suppose if we more narrowly observe them, we shall find that these differences will appear to be rather in words and terms, then in substance: for our better reconciling of these let us take notice.
Ans. But the answer of this question is not without its difficulty, partly because the way lyes very narrow between Antinomian and Arminian errours, and therefore there needs the greater exactness in cutting the threed true, partly because I find Judicious and Orthodox Divines to vary in their expressions of it. But I suppose if we more narrowly observe them, we shall find that these differences will appear to be rather in words and termes, then in substance: for our better reconciling of these let us take notice.