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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.
cIt is a grand mistake for any to account nothing Gospel, but the New-Testament: Indeed the greatest part of the Old-Testament is Gospel, containing the Gracious Transactions of God with fallen Man: Now wherever such a thing is made mention of, it must needs come under the tenor of the New-Covenant, the first being made weak by the Sin of Man, & no ways able to help him, Gal. 3.21. Which could have given Life▪ viz. to fallen Man. Moreover the scope of this whole Psalm, is evangelical, namely, to represent God to us acting in the application of the mercies of the Covenant of Grace, Pardon, Forgiveness, Pity, tender Care, &c.
cIt is a grand mistake for any to account nothing Gospel, but the New-Testament: Indeed the greatest part of the Old-Testament is Gospel, containing the Gracious Transactions of God with fallen Man: Now wherever such a thing is made mention of, it must needs come under the tenor of the New-Covenant, the first being made weak by the Sin of Man, & no wayes able to help him, Gal. 3.21. Which could have given Life▪ viz. to fallen Man. Moreover the scope of this whole Psalm, is evangelicall, namely, to represent God to us acting in the application of the mercies of the Covenant of Grace, Pardon, Forgiveness, Pity, tender Care, &c.
- cVide Synops. pur Theol. Disput. 22. S. 13, 14. &c. Foedus Evangelicum vel vetus est, vel novum. Maccov.
Object. But if fearing God, keeping his Covenant, ⟨p. 5⟩doing his Commandments be here conditions of this Promise, then it is legal, for these are Works.