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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.
If any shall (this notwithstanding) think it more fit and proper to call this Obedience, rather a Covenant-Command, than a Condition, I shall not be eager to dispute of terms, provided this one thing be granted, which cannot without opposing the truth be denied, viz. That it is a part of the Gospel-way, necessary to Salvation (i. e. Necessitate Praecepti & medii) beside, or beyond which interpretation, I do not understand or urge the notion of a Condition in the Gospel-Covenant.
If any shall (this notwithstanding) think it more fit and proper to call this Obedience, rather a Covenant-Command, than a Condition, I shall not be eager to dispute of terms, provided this one thing be granted, which cannot without opposing the truth be denyed, viz. That it is a part of the Gospell-way, necessary to Salvation (i. e. Necessitate Praecepti & medii) beside, or beyond which interpretation, I do not understand or urge the notion of a Condition in the Gospell-Covenant.
And now having discovered the Conditions propounded and required in this Covenant, the question under consideration, viz. What it is to keep Covenant is easily hence answered: To keep Covenant is in general to perform that Obligation we stand in to it; for Man to keep Covenant with God, is for him to perform the conditions of his Covenant. In particular, let us observe that our present discourse refers to the visible dispensation of the Covenant, and our so being related to it, as it stands propounded on God's Part, and at least outwardly acknowledged and submitted to on our Part: The conditions then are all those things which the Gospel calls for at our hands, or prescribes to us as necessary to Salvation: and then to keep Covenant, is,
And now having discovered the Conditions propounded and required in this Covenant, the question under consideration, viz. VVhat it is to keep Covenant is easily hence answered: To keep Covenant is in generall to perform that Obligation we stand in to it; for Man to keep Covenant with God, is for him to performe the conditions of his Covenant. In particular, let us observe that our present discourse referrs to the visible dispensation of the Covenant, and our so being related to it, as it stands propounded on God's Part, and at least outwardly acknowledged and submitted to on our Part: The conditions then are all those things which the Gospel calls for at our hands, or prescribes to us as necessary to Salvation: and then to keep Covenant, is,