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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.
1. Your act, you have chosen, and if you have indeed made this choice, then you have tasted & seen that God is good, yea, the best good.
Choice is a deliberate act, it is not a thing to be run upon hastily and rashly, but upon mature Consideration, he that hath a choice to make will Ponder the matter in his mind, first consider before he concludes; this action of yours doth therefore carry in it this profession, that you have entered into your hearts, & seriously thought of the business, yea,
Choice is a deliberate act, it is not a thing to be run upon hastily and rashly, but upon mature Consideration, he that hath a choice to make will Ponder the matter in his mind, first consider before he concludes; this action of yours doth therefore carry in it this profession, that you have entred into your hearts, & seriously thought of the business, yea,
Choice is a segregating, and a disjunctive act, wheresoever there is a choosing, there is also a refusing, at least by consequence; for, to render a thing capable of being chosen, it must be presented and proffered with some other thing; there must be more things then one to make a choice out of, for the very act implies divers objects, amongst which one hath the preeminence, in our esteem, and is therefore pitched upon, in which very choosing, the other are refused. If then you have chosen God, it it certain that you have renounced sin, and world, and all your vanities, and have now openly acknowledged that they are not your Gods, that you will never more place your dependence upon them. If you have chosen God; you have chosen him alone, it is this one God you have set your hearts upon, so he is propounded, Deut 6 4. The Lord our God is one Lord. God never acknowledged himself indeed chosen, by them who would have him in conjunction with other things. Again.