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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.
2. The Covenant comes to each upon equal terms or propositions. The Covenant stands visibly under the very same respects to the Father and to the Child: The Text is clear for […] •thers, and Children's children if they keep Covenant have a promise of Mercy: If they keep it the blessing is theirs, if they keep it not they cannot expect it, or challenge it: Those therefore▪ that object from such Scriptures, that the Children are not in Covenant, but only conditionally if they keep it, are to remember, as was hinted before, that keeping of Covenant necessarily presupposeth a Covenant to be kept, and the Person that so keeps it, to be related to it, for none can keep Covenant but one that ⟨p. 71⟩is first in Covenant, nor yet can any but such break Covenant: He only breaks his Promise that first made one: He only neglects his duty, that was first obliged. It is not the Covenant it self, but the blessing of the Covenant, which is the happiness of those that keep it. We read also of those that dealt falsely in the Covenant, i e. promised, and so were in Covenant, but performed not, Psal. 78.37. Jer. 6.13.
2. The Covenant comes to each upon equal terms or propositions. The Covenant stands visibly under the very same respects to the Father and to the Child: The Text is clear for 〈…〉 •thers, and Childrens children if they keep Covenant have a promise of Mercy: If they keep it the blessing is theirs, if they keep it not they cannot expect it, or challenge it: Those therefore▪ that object from such Scriptures, that the Children are not in Covenant, but only conditionally if they keep it, are to remember, as was hinted before, that keeping of Covenant necessarily presupposeth a Covenant to be kept, and the Person that so keeps it, to be related to it, for none can keep Covenant but one that ⟨p. 71⟩is first in Covenant, nor yet can any but such break Covenant: He only breakes his Promise that first made one: He only neglects his duty, that was first obliged. It is not the Covenant it self, but the blessing of the Covenant, which is the happiness of those that keep it. We read also of those that dealt falsly in the Covenant, i e. promised, and so were in Covenant, but performed not,