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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. That Godly Parents cannot by their Faith, nor all endeavours, work, no not so much as secure the Regeneration and Salvation of their Children. It hath been a question moved by some, whither godly Parents doing their duty to their children faithfully, and using their outmost endeavours in bringing them up for God, may not rely on the Covenant-promise, and positively believe their Children shall be saved, and that although for the present they see no change wrought in them, but they walk in vain courses? In answer to which I shall propound a few things to be considered.
1. That the Sovereignty of Divine Grace, which can neither be prevented nor obliged by any thing in or for us, is a Pillar-truth of Christian Religion, Rom. 9.16. It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, &c. So far as we detract from God's Sovereignty in the dispensation of converting and saving Grace, we so far make God a debtor to the Creature, before he makes Himself so by a free Promise.
1. That the Soveraignty of Divine Grace, which can neither be prevened nor obliged by any thing in or for us, is a Pillar-truth of Christian Religion, Rom. 9.16. It is not of him that willeth, nor of him that runneth, &c. So far as we detract from God's Soveraignty in the dispensation of converting and saving Grace, we so far make God a debtor to the Creature, before he makes Himself so by a free Promise.
2. That all which Parents can do for their Children, ⟨p. 77⟩