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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.
3. Do I dispute concerning the Parents conveyance of visible Privileges, or how far they are to stand or fall with their Parents, or whither Parents by bringing ⟨p. 70⟩themselves under visible censures, may obstruct the benefit in regard of their Children, till they do remove these obstructions: Some Divines are of opinion that immediate Parents do equally hold or lose outward Privileges for themselves, and for their Children, whiles in their Loins: But I speak of the Children of visible Believers, standing right when their Children are born: Their equality appears in these respects.
3. Do I dispute concerning the Parents conveyance of visible Priviledges, or how farr they are to stand or fall with their Parents, or whither Parents by bringing ⟨p. 70⟩themselves under visible censures, may obstruct the benefit in regard of their Children, till they do remove these obstructions: Some Divines are of opinion that immediate Parents do equally hold or lose outward Priviledges for themselves, and for their Children, whiles in their Loins: But I speak of the Children of visible Beleevers, standing right when their Children are born: Their equality appears in these respects.
1. When God extended the Covenant to their Parents, He extended it to them at the same time; though as to us who are Children of Time, we must have an existence before we be actually in Covenant; yet as to God, who dwells in Eternity, He engrosseth all Generations in one view, and so He takes Fathers and Children together: Though the Fathers may be possibly considered as Agents, and Trustees for their Children, whiles in their Loins: God did not say to Abraham, I make a Covenant with thee now, and will make one with thy Children hereafter: But He puts them both together, Gen. 17.7. And hence they are called God's Children,