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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.
1. We may be in visible Covenant, and yet not have Christ for our engaged Undertaker, it is only Believers that have truly placed their soul• trust in Him, that He stands engaged to and for; to others He is only propounded▪ All in the visible Church have not saving ⟨p. 84⟩Faith wrought in them, they have not cordially closed with Christ as their […] and King, though they have outwardly and verbally promised so to do; and His Mediation and Redemption will not be profitable to such: These have Pardon, Peace and Salvation promised to them only with this proviso, if they believe, and that with such a caveat annexed to it too, that if they believe not they shall be damned. God indeed bestows upon them all visible means and helps to believing, but if they improve them not unto the attaining of this Grace, they will be witnesses against them in the Day of account, and help greatly to inflame their Reckoning, Mat. 11.23.
1. We may be in visible Covenant, and yet not have Christ for our engaged Vndertaker, it is only Beleevers that have truly placed their soul• trust in Him, that He stands engaged to and for; to others He is only propounded▪ All in the visible Church have not saving ⟨p. 84⟩Faith wrought in them, they have not cordially closed with Christ as their 〈…〉 and King, though they have outwardly and verbally promised so to do; and His Mediation and Redemption will not be profitable to such: These have Pardon, Peace and Salvation promised to them only with this proviso, if they believe, and that with such a caveat annexed to it too, that if they believe not they shall be damned. God indeed bestowes upon them all visible means and helps to believing, but if they improve them not unto the attaining of this Grace, they will be witnesses against them in the Day of account, and help greatly to enflame their Reckoning, Mat. 11.23