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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.
This Psalm is a Psalm of Praise, its proper design is to move and persuade the Church of God to celebrate His Glorious goodness and mercy to His People; to which end there is from vers. 3. to 20. a particular enumeration of various benefits, for which he is to be acknowledged and honoured in the lips and hearts of His People: One of these is recorded and illustrated from vers. 15. to 19. viz. His endless mercy, and described,
This Psalm is a Psalm of Praise, its proper design is to move and perswade the Church of God to celebrate His Glorious goodness and mercy to His People; to which end there is from vers. 3. to 20. a particular enumeration of various benefits, for which he is to be acknowledged and honoured in the lips and hearts of His People: One of these is recorded and illustrated from vers. 15. to 19. viz. His endless mercy, and described,
1. By its duration, from everlasting to everlasting, it is not a fading or soon-expiring Love, but abiding; this is illustrated by the contrary, or compa•ed with the mercy of Man, which must needs be like Himself, and what He is, He tells us, vers. 15, 16. His days are as grass, &c. He is a poor, frail, withering, dying thing, blown down like a bubble, with a little puff, soon gone, and the remembrance of him lost in a little time,
1. By its duration, from everlasting to everlasting, it is not a fading or soon-expiring Love, but abiding; this is illustrated by the contrary, or compa•ed with the mercy of Man, which must needs be like Himself, and what He is, He tells us, vers. 15, 16. His dayes are as grass, &c. He is a poor, frail, withering, dying thing, blown down like a bubble, with a little puff, soon gone, and the remembrance of him lost in a little time,