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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. 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,
2. By the subject of it, whereof here is a threefold Character, all indeed aiming at one and the same thing, but varying in the expression, and that for our better information: the subjects thereof are described by,
1. The inward principle whereby they are acted, them that fear him which word is used in the Old Testament to be an expression of the obedience of Faith;1 they that fear God are true Believers, that have received the heart •f Children, it intends that reverential and filial fear that is in true Converts, which is the spring and principle of obedience