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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.
1. Negative▪ or those great Evils which it brings with it a freedom from: Man's Fall had ruined, undone, bankrupted him: Man had procured to himself the Wrath of an Holy God, the Curse of a Righteous Law; Had pulled down Vengeance on his own head, and made himself a Prey to the Miseries of this and another World: But the New-Covenant opens to him a way for the escaping of all this: It discovers how he may get free from all this Evil: How he may be Atoned unto God, reconciled to the Law, and delivered from the Curses and Miseries he was exposed unto, here is the first good News of Man's escape made known.
2. Positive, or those good things which it entitles them unto who embrace it Cordially; which are Justification, not only Negative in Absolution from the ⟨p. 60⟩Curse, but Positive too, in declaring the Sinner to be Righteous: And Adoption, in giving us the Title of the Sons of God, and in bestowing on us a real Right to all the good things of God, constituting us Co-heirs with Jesus Christ in the purchased Possession: And Sanctification, in being purged from the Filth, and delivered from the Dominion of Sin, and made partakers of the Graces of the Spirit, whereby we are enabled to serve God in Holiness and Righteousness all our Days: And Glorification, in those comfortable foretastes of Divine Love and Favour, which are better than Life, and assurances of inheriting the whole Promise, and all the blessings laid up in it: These are Covenant Blessings. Text.
2. Positive, or those good things which it entitles them unto who embrace it Cordially; which are Justification, not only Negative in Absolution from the ⟨p. 60⟩Curse, but Positive too, in declaring the Sinner to be Righteous: And Adoption, in giving us the Title of the Sons of God, and in bestowing on us a real Right to all the good things of God, constituting us Co-heirs with Jesus Christ in the purchased Possession: And Sanctification, in being purged from the Filth, and delivered from the Dominion of Sin, and made partakers of the Graces of the Spirit, whereby we are enabled to serve God in Holiness and Righteousness all our Dayes: And Glorification, in those comfortable foretastes of Divine Love and Favour, which are better than Life, and assurances of inheriting the whole Promise, and all the blessings laid up in it: These are Covenant Blessings. Text.