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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.
6. By praying one for another. God is the Author of Holiness, pray therefore that He would pour it out upon His People, and make it to abound: And in special pray for those whom God calls to dispense the means of Holiness to you (this boon Paul begged of his Ephesians, Eph. 6.19.) that they may enjoy the presence of God's holy Spirit, and receive Grace to ⟨p. 108⟩be faithful in delivering the whole counsel of God to you, and successful, by His presence with, and blessing upon their labours and endeavours, that so you, by them, may be helped forward in the way to the everlasting Kingdom: All these Duties you owe one another by virtue of the Covenant of God with you.
6. By praying one for another. God is the Author of Holiness, pray therefore that He would poure it out upon His People, and make it to abound: And in special pray for those whom God calls to dispense the means of Holiness to you (this boon Paul beg'd of his Ephesians, Eph. 6.19.) that they may enjoy the presence of God's holy Spirit, and receive Grace to ⟨p. 108⟩be faithful in delivering the whole counsel of God to you, and successeful, by His presence with, and blessing upon their labours and endeavours, that so you, by them, may be helpt forward in the way to the everlasting Kingdom: All these Dutyes you owe one another by vertue of the Covenant of God with you.
2. Beware of suffering one another in Sin, but in all faithfulness endeavour each others recovery. None so much needs a helping hand to be lent him, as he that is fallen, and it is a main part of that Love which the People of God owe one to another, to be faithful in reproving Sin. If we are not to turn aside from, nor to neglect to help our Neighbour's Ox, and Ass when they are fallen, much less the Soul of our Brother: Not to reprove Sin, when there is need of a reproof, is (if we will credit the interpretation of the Spirit of God) accounted to hate him in our heart,