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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.
4. Consider how great the severity of God hath ⟨p. 86⟩been against Covenant-breakers. Joshua dissembled not with them, but gave them a true caution, John, 24.19, 20. He will not forgive, &c. If you forsake, &c. God sends the Jews to Shiloh, to read there in those heaps and monuments of His anger, a Lesson of their own admonition, Jer. 7.11. The Histories of God's revenge upon His own People, for affronts offered to His Covenant, are as well recorded for our instruction, as those of His Mercies. God would have all of us to know, that He is Holy as well as Gracious, and that He expects to be glorified by all those that draw near unto Him. If Aaron's Sons offer strange fire, they themselves shall be destroyed with fire from Heaven. Awful is that Scripture, Jer. 12.7. I have forsaken my House▪ I have left mine heritage, I have given the dearly Beloved of my Soul into the hand of her Enemies. Jerusalem came down wonderfully, because she had forsaken her God. Apostate Churches are the most unsafe, and insecure of any People of the World, and let us remember that the time is drawing on when Judgement must begin at the House of God, and if so, we have great need, if we would then escape, to see to our own hearts and lives, that they be agreeable to what the Covenant expects of us.
4. Consider how great the severity of God hath ⟨p. 86⟩been against Covenant-breakers. Joshua dissembled not with them, but gave them a true caution, John, 24.19, 20. He will not forgive, &c. If you forsake, &c. God sends the Jews to Shilo, to read there in those heaps and monuments of His anger, a Lesson of their own admonition, Jer. 7.11. The Histories of God's revenge upon His own People, for affronts offered to His Covenant, are as well recorded for our instruction, as those of His Mercies. God would have all of us to know, that He is Holy as well as Gracious, and that He expects to be glorified by all those that draw near unto Him. If Aaron's Sons offer strange fire, they themselves shall be destroyed with fire from Heaven. Awfull is that Scripture,