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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. That it out-does the power of Moral-means and endeavours, though never so sincerely used, to Plant or infuse Grace into any Souls: The Work of Conversion is not wrought by the will of Man, but of God only, Joh. 1.13. If good Men could Will, could Pray, could Labour Faith into any according to their desire, their would none of their Children, none of their Servants, none of their Neighbours, none in the World perish.
4. That Divine Faith is not only a confidence, but a grounded confidence: The Rule doth not only command and bind us to believe, but it also tells us what we are to believe: The Hold of Faith is the Promise, and therefore it can be assured of any thing no further then that goes: Faith must have a clear Word for its Trust, else it is but vain: All our Plea is in the Covenant-Promise, and if we cannot find that we look for [There] we have nothing to build upon, but are at uncertainty.
5. That Believers have no absolute and illimited Promise in the Word of God that all their Children, or this or that Child shall be saved, no nor limited neither to their care, and faithfulness, that if they do their best, He will infallibly add saving Grace: This will appear by two Arguments.
5. That Beleevers have no absolute and illimited Promise in the Word of God that all their Children, or this or that Child shall be saved, no nor limited neither to their care, and faithfulness, that if they do their best, He will infallibly add saving Grace: This will appear by two Arguments.