N00263:201
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.
But still,
1. There are no other Ordinances which we admit them to, till they do embrace the Covenant, and that by a visible profession of Faith and Repentance; and so they subject themselves to the Covenant of God, we Baptize them not, we admit them not to the Lord's Table, exercise not Church watch cover, or discipline to them till then: So that the Covenant is unto them a necessary Medium of Participation, there must be a visible conversion wrought in them, from the heathen to the Christian Religion.
1. There are no other Ordinances which we admit them to, till they do embrace the Covenant, and that by a visible profession of Faith and Repentance; and so they subject themselves to the Covenant of God, we Baptize them not, we admit them not to the Lord's Table, exercise not Church watch cover, or discipline to them till then: So that the Covenant is unto them a necessary Medium of Perticipation, there must be a visible conversion wrought in them, from the heathen to the Christian Religion.
2. Though the Word may be preached to the Heathen, yet it is committed to the Church or Covenant People of God, Rom. 3.2. It is a depositum that God put into their hands, a gift of God's favour which He hath given His Church possession of.