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The doctrine of the covenant of redemption Wherein is laid the foundation of all…
The doctrine of the covenant of redemption Wherein is laid the foundation of all our hopes and happiness. Briefly opened and improved. By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. [Three lines from Psalms]
Boston: printed by Benj. Harris over against the Old-Meet, 1693
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. It is a Thing that may be known. Although the Eternal Transaction between GOD the Father, and GOD the Son, be a Secret Hidden from the World, and no Man can have any particular ⟨p. 138⟩knowledge of it referring to himself, till he be made partakers in the special fruits of it: yet the Believer in regard of himself, may obtain a clear acquaintance with it: he may be able to discern and read it. There is a way Revealed in the Scripture whereby we may come to know what was contrived about us in the days of Eternity, and be assured that Jesus Christ hath paid the full Price of our Redemption: not only that he hath done so for some, but for us in particular. Were it not so, that Precept in, 2. Pet. 1. 10. had been superfluous: yea all the Commands given us to Prove and Try our own State were vain: For unless our Trial Issue here we are still left at a loss. But there is a Promise made to the People of God that […] him, that He will show them His Covenant, Psal. 25. 14. i. e. The Great secret of the Covenant of Redemption, shall be discovered to them, by making of them to know that God loved them with an Everlasting Love.
1. It is a Thing that may be known. Although the Eternal Transaction between GOD the Father, and GOD the Son, be a Secret Hidden from the World, and no Man can have any particular ⟨p. 138⟩knowledge of it referring to himself, till he be made partakers in the special fruits of it: yet the Believer in regard of himself, may obtain a clear acquaintance with it: he may be able to discern and read it. There is a way Revealed in the Scripture whereby we may come to know what was contrived about us in the days of Eternity, and be assured that Jesus Christ hath paid the full Price of our Redemption: not only that he hath done so for some, but for us in particular. Were it not so, that Precept in, 2. Pet. 1. 10. had been superfluous: yea all the Commands given us to Prove and Try our own State were vain: For unless our Trial Issue here we are still left at a loss. But there is a Promise made to the People of God that him, that He will show them His Covenant,