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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.
1. That Faith and Obedience are the Parts of that Religion which is given to fallen Man as the Rule of his Life, is acknowledged by all Orthodox, and maintained as a grand Pillar against Antinomianism, who (misusing the phrase, Only believe) would exterminate New-Obedience from this Rule; whereas many places in the New-Testament do clearly stand for its confirmation: among many, See, 2 Tim. 1. 13. Where Love intends, and is but another expression of Obedience, Tit. 3. 8. Good Works, are Works conformed to the Rule of Obedience: when God bids Men to believe, He doth not forbid them to obey, nor discharge them from Obedience, but doth together enjoin them to it.
1. That Faith and Obedience are the Parts of that Religion which is given to fallen Man as the Rule of his Life, is acknowledged by all Orthodox, and maintained as a grand Piller against Antinomianisme, who (misusing the phrase, Only believe) would exterminate New-Obedience from this Rule; whereas many places in the New-Testament do clearly stand for its confirmation: among many, See, 2 Tim. 1. 13. Where Love intends, and is but another expression of Obedience, Tit. 3. 8. Good Works, are Works conformed to the Rule of Obedience: when God bids Men to believe, He doth not forbid them to obey, nor discharge them from Obedience, but doth together enjoyn them to it.
2. That both of these bear a relation to the Covenant of Reconciliation, or are in the Gospel-Covenant as it is exhibited to Men in the outward dispensation of it, is also a Truth not doubted of by those that love the Truth. And the reason for it is plain, because (as we before heard) God still transacts with Man in way of a Covenant; as also because there are Evangelical Promises made to the one and the other, and threatenings denounced against the neglect of the one as well as the other, which things declare that Obedience also hath its relation to that Covenant.