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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. 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
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 Believe•s, that have received the heart •f Children, it intends that reverential and filial fear that is in true Converts, which is the spring and principl of obedience
- 1•ar•, quando ad Deum refertur generale est complecte•• omnem reverentiam quae cum veneratione & Religione Deo exhibetur. Chemn.
2. The practice of this principle▪ such as keep His Covenant: i. e. those that so order their lives, as to observe the obligation lying upon them in the Covenant, and endeavour to frame themselves according to the Terms and Prescripts of it, and that observe the conditions of it.