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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. By virtue of the Covenant they are privileged with much more of the presence and striving of the Spirit of God than others ordinarily enjoy. The Spirit speaks directly to the Churches; He walks in the midst of the Golden Candlesticks. Church Officers are Stars in Christ's own right Hand; and where God hath Recorded His Name, He hath engaged His Presence, Exod. 20.24. He speaks more darkly, obscurely, weakly to Heathen by the light of their natural consciences, then He doth to those who sit under the Word and Means; the Word being the Chariot in which He chooseth to Ride most eminently, and with which He insinuates Himself into the Souls of His People. These to be sure shall have the first proffers of Salvation made to them, Act. 13.46. And if they embrace and accept them to be theirs, herein they greatly please God. In a Word, they are advantaged to have as much done with them for their good as can be, as to Means: the care, the cost, the pains of the Husband-Man, is not laid out upon the open Forrest or wild Wilderness, but upon His Vineyard, Isa. 5. begin.
3. By vertue of the Covenant they are priviledged with much more of the presence and striving of the Spirit of God than others ordinarily enjoy. The Spirit speaks directly to the Churches; He walks in the midst of the Golden Candlesticks. Church Officers are Stars in Christ's own right Hand; and where God hath Recorded His Name, He hath engaged His Presence, Exod. 20.24. He speaks more darkly, obscurely, weakly to Heathen by the light of their natural consciences, then He doth to those who sit under the Word and Means; the Word being the Chariot in which He chuseth to Ride most eminently, and with which He insinuates Himself into the Souls of His People. These to be sure shall have the first profers of Salvation made to them, Act. 13.46. And if they embrace and accept them to be theirs, herein they greatly please God. In a Word, they are advantaged to have as much done with them for their good as can be, as to Meanes: the care, the cost, the pains of the Husband-Man, is not laid out upon the open Forrest or wild Wilderness, but upon His Vineyard,