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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.
These Mercies are called Everlasting for several Reasons.
These Mercies are called Everlasting for severall Reasons.
1. From the Bigger and better Part of them, which are Positively and properly so: Not but that there are Transitory and Passing Mercies, included in the Covenant-Promise: For, Godliness hath the Promise of the Life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 1 Tim. 4.8. But these Temporal Mercies are (though great in respect of our deserving, who are less then the least of God's Mercies, yet) Little and of Low Consideration, when they are compared with those which are in reversion in another World, and are therefore Swallowed up and lost in the Contemplation of these.
1. From the Bigger and better Part of them, which are Positively and properly so: Not but that there are Transitory and Passing Mercies, included in the Covenant-Promise: For, Godliness hath the Promise of the Life that now is, as well as of that which is to come, 1 Tim. 4.8. But these Temporall Mercies are (though great in respect of our deserving, who are lesse then the least of God's Mercies, yet) Little and of Low Consideration, when they are compared with those which are in reversion in another World, and are therefore Swallowed up and lost in the Contemplation of these.
2. To note to us the Original and Continuance of the whole Series of Covenant-Mercies: For their Original, they proceed from Everlasting Love, and are therefore said to be from Everlasting: The Love of God decreed them before the Creature had a Being: yea, and in the Covenant of Redemption they were provided & secured for God's Elect before Man either was, or actually stood in need of any Mercy for their continuance also, although some Mercies are transient and pass away, and there are innumerable of these that visit and pass by us every day, and when we have tasted of them, are gone, yet Mercies continue, and the People of God shall enjoy all needful blessings through Time and Eternity: they are Springs whose Waters though always running, yet never fail, as one Mercy goes, another comes, and they shall never cease, Psal. 82.33. And are therefore called Everlasting.