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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.
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.
1. Because God is faithful to every Promise which He hath made, He is a God that cannot lie, or repent. I know godly Parents may be remiss, but they are not ⟨p. 78⟩always so, and yet have had their Children whom God hath rejected: Abraham his Ishmael: Isaac his Esau: David his Absalom and Adonijah: Eli his Hophni and Phinehas: Now of Abraham we read that he was Trusty and Faithful in teaching his children, Gen. 18.19. And therefore he instructed, and disciplined: Ishmael he circumcised him, and prayed earnestly for him.
1. Because God is faithfull to every Promise which He hath made, He is a God that cannot lie, or repent. I know godly Parents may be rem•ss, but they are not ⟨p. 78⟩alwayes so, and yet have had their Children whom God hath rejected: Abraham his Ishmael: Isaack his Esau: David his Absolom and Adonijah: Eli his Hophni and Phinehas: Now of Abraham we read that he was Trusty and Faithfull in teaching his children, Gen. 18.19