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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.
Yea, engaged Himself in a Covenant to His Father, to take our Nature upon Him, and do our ⟨p. 59⟩Works for us, and bear the Curse in our stead, which we should have born, and that otherwayes there could have been no hope for our Salvation: And that the necessity of such an interposition did not shut up the Bowels of Divine Favour against us, but that he brake through this difficulty, and undertook to take away all these obstructions; this is a great argument of His ineffable Love: And it should deeply affect us to think that every Tender of Salvation which is made unto us, is made through the blood of a Redeemer, else we should not have heard or had one gracious Proffer or Promise, so much as Conditionally propounded unto us.
Yea, engaged Himself in a Covenant to His Father, to take our Nature upon Him, and do our ⟨p. 59⟩Works for us, and bear the Curse in our stead, which we should have born, and that otherwayes there could have been no hope for our Salvation: And that the necessity of such an interposition did not shut up the Bowels of Divine Favour against us, but that he brake through this difficulty, and undertook to take away all these obstructions; this is a great argument of His ineffable Love: And it should deeply affect us to think that every Tender of Salvation which is made unto us, is made through the bloud of a Redeemer, else we should not have heard or had one gracious Profer or Promise, so much as Conditionally propounded unto us.
3. If we consider the great benefits which are propounded and presented to us in the Covenant. They are Infinite and Everlasting Mercies: All our Wants are here supplied, All our desires are filled, All our Miseries are removed by it. The Benefits are Great:
3. If we consider the great benefits which are propounded and presented to us in the Covenant. They are Infinite and Everlasting Mercies: All our Wants are here supplyed, All our desires are filled, All our Miseries are removed by it. The Benefits are Great: