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The duty of a people that have renewed their covenant with God. Opened and…
The duty of a people that have renewed their covenant with God. Opened and urged in a sermon preached to the Second Church in Boston in New-England, March 17. 1679.[/]80. after that church had explicitly and most solemnly renewed the engagement of themselves to God, and one to another. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]The duty of a people that have renewed their covenant with God. Opened and urged in a sermon preached to the Second Church in Boston in New-England, March 17. 1679.[/]80. after that church had explicitly and most solemnly renewed the ingagement of themselves to God, and one to another. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston in New-England. ; [Six lines of Scripture texts]
Boston: printed by John Foster, 1680
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.
2. It was when Joshua was now waxed old, v. 1. and was now ready to leave the world, v. 14. he could not expect to continue much longer among them; whence observe, That it is the care of Godly and zealous Rulers when they are to be gone, to leave Religion in as safe and hopeful a way as possibly they can. Joshua takes care to leave the People under the strongest tie possible to continue faithful in the Service of God.
2. It was when Joshuah was now waxed old, v. 1. and was now ready to leave the world, v. 14. he could not expect to continue much longer among them; whence observe, That it is the care of Godly and zealous Rulers when they are to be gone, to leave Religion in as safe and hopefull a way as possibly they can. Joshuah takes care to leave the People under the strongest tye possible to continue faithful in the Service of God.
3. It was while the People were yet standing in a good estate, and Religion in its glory, and not under decays, v. 8. cleave to the Lord your God, as ye have done to this day. It was one of the best Generations of this People: and then it instructs us. That there are other occasions of Renewing of Covenant besides Apostasy: It may be done for keeping out ⟨p. 2⟩as well as thrusting out Sin, and that especially in hours of Temptation, when there are Canaanites in the land. And it may be done to oblige our selves to a grateful acknowledgement of Gods faithfulness to us, & to be an engaging bond on us to be faithful to Him: as this was here.
3. It was while the People were yet standing in a good estate, and Religion in its glory, and not under decayes, v. 8. cleave to the Lord your God, as ye have done to this day. It was one of the best Generations of this People: and then it instructs us. That there are other occasions of Renewing of Covenant besides Apostasy: It may be done for keeping out ⟨p. 2⟩