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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. That God had no need of Man to glorify him, nor was he obliged to any such way as this to glorify himself by him. He could have gotten himself a Name by destroying him, and made his Justice triumph in everlasting revenges. He had glorious Angels enough to do him Service, and the residue of the Spirit was with him, whereby he could have Created a New Generation of Men, even out of the very Stones, had he seen meet.
2. That God had no need of Man to glorifie him, nor was he obliged to any such way as this to gloryfie himself by him. He could have gotten himself a Name by destroying him, and made his Justice triumph in everlasting revenges. He had glorious Angels enough to do him Service, and the residue of the Spirit was with him, whereby he could have Created a New Generation of Men, even out of the very Stones, had he seen meet.
3. That Man was in himself a Creature serviceless as to any actual employment for the glory of God, he was without strength, Rom. 5.6. More cost must be laid out upon him to make him a vessel of glory, and fit him up for his Master's use, than to have made a new World. He was a Creature like to be a great trial and exercise to Divine Patience as long as he lived: A Creature not fit to be trusted again with any Stock of grace, having so woefully failed, and discovered himself faithless in his first Trust.
3. That Man was in himself a Creature serviceless as to any actual employment for the glory of God, he was without strength, Rom. 5.6. More cost must be laid out upon him to make him a vessell of glory, and fit him up for his Master's use, than to have made a new World. He was a Creature like to be a great tryall and exercise to Divine Patience as long as he lived: A Creature not fit to be trusted agen with any Stock of grace, having so wofully failed, and discovered himself faithless in his first Trust.