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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. To bear about an humble sense or consciousness of, and a Spirit of mourning for our frailties and daily neglects; we must bewail both our impotency and exorbitancy: Though we do Sin (for who lives and Sins not) yet we do not allow it, though we do omit much of our duty, yet we condemn our selves for it: Though Sin be too subtle and potent for us, and often we are entangled by it, yet we do account it a sore Oppression, a distressing Captivity, and cry out earnestly to Heaven for help and deliverance: This was Pauls Spirit and […], Rom. 7. This shows the heart is true to God, and is therefore in his account and interpretation esteemed Evangelical-Obedience.
3. To bear about an humble sense or consciousness of, and a Spirit of mourning for our frailties and dayly neglects; we must bewail both our impotency and exorbitancy: Though we do Sin (for who lives and Sins not) yet we do not allow it, though we do omit much of our duty, yet we condemn our selves for it: Though Sin be too subtile and potent for us, and often we are entangled by it, yet we do account it a sore Oppression, a distressing Captivity, and cry out earnestly to Heaven for help and deliverance: This was Pauls Spirit and 〈…〉, Rom. 7. This shews the heart is true to God, and is therefore in his account and interpretation esteemed Evangelicall-Obedience.
4. That we do constantly repair to Christ for His strength to help us, and that solely relying upon His Grace to give us favour and acceptance with God, and ultimately resolving all our hopes, not into our own, but His Righteousness. This is that which we are engaged and required to do in the New-Covenant, and if we do not this, let our Obedience be never so specious, it is still reputed but legal, and so becomes worthless. Sense of our own infirmity disabling us from doing duty perfectly, ought not to discourage us from endeavouring to do it sincerely, but its use is to teach us this Lesson, that since our strength is not in our selves, but in another, we ought to go out of our selves and repair unto Him. All the Grace and Strength of Jesus Christ is