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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. Because in this way God declares and glorifies not only his sovereign Mercy, but also his infinite Holiness and Justice. If Man had been saved in any other way but this, God might and should have been eternally acknowledged a most merciful God: But how to have reconciled Justice and Mercy, and vindicated the Glory of his Holiness, as well as discovered the riches of his Grace, it is not in our reach to understand how ever this could have been done declaratively (as things were circumstanced) but in the way of a Covenant. But here God displays all these Articles: His Holiness, in making us Holy, in having to do with Sinners only by a holy and spotless Mediator: His Justice in taking full satisfaction at the hands of Christ for all that which the violated Covenant of Works made demands of to the least tittle, and yet his Mercy in accepting of us, though unworthy Sinners, justly removed from his favour, and both Justice and Mercy united, in the exchange made between Christ and us; He being made Sin for us, who knew none, viz. Imputatively; and we made the Righteousness of God by Him. It is in the Covenant that all these Attributes display themselves, Psal. 85.10, 11.
3. Because in this way God declares and glorifies not only his soveraign Mercy, but also his infinite Holiness and Justice. If Man had been saved in any other way but this, God might and should have been eternally acknowledged a most mercifull God: But how to have reconciled Justice and Mercy, and vindicated the Glory of his Holiness, as well as discovered the riches of his Grace, it is not in our reach to understand how ever this could have been done declaratively (as things were circumstanced) but in the way of a Covenant. But here God displayes all these Articles: His Holiness, in making us Holy, in having to do with Sinners only by a holy and spotless Mediator: His Justice in taking full satisfaction at the hands of Christ for all that which the violated Covenant of Works made demands of to the least tittle, and yet his Mercy in accepting of us, though unworthy Sinners, justly removed from his favour, and both Justice and Mercy united, in the exchange made between Christ and us; He being made Sin for us, who knew none, viz. Imputatively; and we made the Righteousness of God by Him. It is in the Covenant that all these Attributes display themselves, Psal. 85.10, 11.