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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.
2. Spiritual, by which I understand, all that Grace and those supplies of Soul-good which are needful for the nourishment and comfort of the hearts of the People ⟨p. 45⟩of God in this Life, those that keep Covenant with God may go, by virtue of this Promise for all that is needful to enable them to keep Covenant, and to encourage them in so doing: Grace sufficient to carry him through, was promised to Paul, and so it is to every Child of God as well: under these spiritual Mercies are comprehended all those means of Grace which are sanctified and improved by the Spirit of God, and all the saving fruits of those means: All the graces of the Spirit, and the exercise of those Graces: yea, and the spiritual use and improvement of all the providences of God; these are things of such inestimable value, that they exceed the capacity of any natural Man to conceive or understand what they be, so Paul commends them, y1 Cor. 2.9.
2. Spiritual, by which I understand, all that Grace and those supplyes of Soul-good which are needfull for the nourishment and comfort of the hearts of the People ⟨p. 45⟩of God in this Life, those that keep Covenant with God may go, by vertue of this Promise for all that is needfull to enable them to keep Covenant, and to encourage them in so doing: Grace sufficient to carry him through, was promised to Paul, and so it is to every Child of God as well: under these spiritual Mercies are comprehended all those means of Grace which are sanctified and improved by the Spirit of God, and all the saving fruits of those means: All the graces of the Spirit, and the exercise of those Graces: yea, and the spiritual use and improvement of all the providences of God; these are things of such inestimable value, that they exceed the capacity of any naturall Man to conceive or understand what they be, so Paul commends them, y1 Cor. 2.9.