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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.
To name a few;
1. The ordinary revealed way of dispensing Salvation, being by the visible Covenant; hence they are apparently nearer Salvation than others. What God doth in a secret way by Sovereign prerogative is not our business to enquire, Deut. 29.29. But according to what is revealed in the Scriptures, the way to Life, is by the Gospel and dispensation of it, and visible acceptance of, and submission to it: Not that it is in it self saving, yet it is the outward way of Gods appointment. Hence, that, Rom 10.14. God may save those that are at present out of visible Covenant, but then He brings them under the bond of it; now, in as much as these in question are already under it, this is their great advantage.
1. The ordinary revealed way of dispensing Salvation, being by the visible Covenant; hence they are apparently nearer Salvation than others. What God doth in a secret way by Sovereign prerogative is not our business to enquire, Deut. 29.29. But according to what is revealed in the Scriptures, the way to Life, is by the Gospel and dispensation of it, and visible acceptance of, and submition to it: Not that it is in it self saving, yet it is the outward way of Gods appointment. Hence, that, Rom 10.14. God may save those that are at present out of visible Covenant, but then He brings them under the bond of it; now, in as much as these in question are already under it, this is their great advantage.
2. By virtue of the Covenant they are privileged, with Gospel-Ordinances, which are the means of Salvation. ⟨p. 73⟩