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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.
4. That when there were so many fallen Angels, Creatures capable of doing more service, might they but have been restored, Creatures, for their Make, more Noble and Laudable, and that yet notwithstanding he should pass by these, and have nothing to do with them in way of a second Covenant, but leave them held under that just condemnation in which they had involved themselves to be held Prisoners of Justice, without any hope for ever, that he might look in Mercy upon Men! This is a thought the Apostle could not entertain without very great admiration, Heb. 2.16.
5. That they were such Creatures into whom the Fall had put such an Antipathy and Enmity against any manner of treating and Covenanting with God, or to have any thing to do with him. They were enemies of grace, and therefore when he comes to treat with them about such matters as concern their eternal Salvation, they resist his Spirit, and reject his Proffers: This both Christ and his Apostles found, and this God knew before he treated with them, they were mere enmity, Rom. 8.7. And that yet he should condescend to have to do with such a subject in the treaties of a second Covenant, this is his wondrous kindness to Man.
5. That they were such Creatures into whom the Fall had put such an Antipathy and Enmity against any manner of treating and Covenanting with God, or to have any thing to do with him. They were enemies of grace, and therefore when he comes to treat with them about such matters as concern their eternal Salvation, they resist his Spirit, and reject his Profers: This both Christ and his Apostles found, and this God knew before he treated with them, they were meer enmity, Rom. 8.7. And that yet he should condescend to have to do with such a subject in the treatyes of a second Covenant, this is his wondrous kindness to Man.