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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.
Prop. 1. That the Children of Believers are equally interested in the visible Covenant with their Fathers. By Believers I do not only intend those that are such by a true and living Faith, but such also as are so by an open and acknowledged profession of their Faith, for these also in the judgement of Charity are to be acknowledged for true Believers▪ And it was to such, ⟨p. 69⟩and in such a notion, that the Apostles wrote all their Epistles to the Churches, as hath been before hinted and proved. By Children also I do not mean only the immediate seed of such as firstly acknowledged and professed this Faith, nor doth the Scripture so intend, but their posterity in all Generations. aHence the Text saith, Children's Children: i. e. The succeeding Generations of them: And so was Abraham's Covenant, which in the substance of it is ours, viz. The Covenant of Grace and Reconciliation, see, Gen. 17.9, 10. And if any do object that the Text speaks of those only that keep Covenant, I answer, It is true in respect of the Promise, but keeping Covenant presumes being in Covenant. And when I say they are equally interested, I would be cautiously understood, I do not therefore mean,
Prop. 1. That the Children of Beleevers are equally interested in the visible Covenant with their Fathers. By Beleevers I do not only intend those that are such by a true and living Faith, but such also as are so by an open and acknowledged profession of their Faith, for these also in the judgement of Charity are to be acknowledged for true Beleevers▪ And it was to such, ⟨p. 69⟩and in such a notion, that the Apostles wrote all their Epistles to the Churches, as hath been before hinted and proved. By Children also I do not mean only the immediate seed of such as firstly acknowledged and professed this Faith, nor doth the Scripture so intend, but their posterity in all Generations. aHence the Text saith, Childrens Children: i. e. The succeeding Generations of them: And so was Abraham's Covenant, which in the substance of it is ours, viz. The Covenant of Grace and Reconciliation, see,