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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. ; [Seven lines from Deuteronomy]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. ; [Seven lines from Deuteronomy]
printed by James Glen, 1682
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.
3. It is to be observed that Christ's suretyship engageth Him to two sorts of Works: There are some which He is to do Personally and alone; such are all those things which He did for us in performing all that was required in the Covenant of Redemption: He alone made satisfaction to Divine Justice, and paid th• Price of our Ransom, fulfilling all Righteousness. B•• ••ere are other Works which He becomes engaged to work in us, as the efficient, which yet are to be done by us, by the strength of His Grace: That we are to do something if we would inherit Eternal Life, is the Language of all Gospel-precepts; Hence, we stand engaged in the Gospel-Covenant to the performance of them: But God had no reason to trust us, being all liars, and having proved false in one Covenant already: it was therefore needful that Christ should engage for us: Now these Works He doth not alone, but as He is the Head of the Church, and all influences into it, which flow from Him into the Body, these Works He performs by His Members. These Works being required in the Covenant of Reconciliation, where Christ Mystical, i. e. Christ and His Church are the Party engaging; hence they fail not to be of the Condition, though required at His Hands as the Head of it.
3. It is to be observed that Christ's suretiship engageth Him to two sorts of Works: There are some which He is to do Personally and alone; such are all those things which He did for us in performing all that was required in the Covenant of Redemption: He alone made satisfaction to Divine Justice, and pai'd th• Price of our Ransome, fulfilling all Righteousness. B•• ••ere are other Works which He becomes engaged to worke in us, as the efficient, which yet are to be done by us, by the strength of His Grace: That we are to do something if we would inherit Eternall Life, is the Language of all Gospel-precepts; Hence, we stand engaged in the Gospell-Covenant to the performance of them: But God had no reason to trust us, being all lyars, and having proved false in one Covenant already: it was therefore needfull that Christ should engage for us: Now these Works He doth not alone, but as He is the Head of the Church, and all influences into it, which flow from Him into the Body, these Works He performes by His Members. These Works being required in the Covenant of Reconciliation, where Christ Mysticall, i. e. Christ and His Church are the Party engaging; hence they fail not to be of the Condition, though required at His Hands as the Head of it.