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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.
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.
Object. But if fearing God, keeping his Covenant, ⟨p. 5⟩doing his Commandments be here conditions of this Promise, then it is legall, for these are Works.
A. Conditions are said to be of two sorts.
1. Antecedent, which hold forth the cause, whereof the fulfilling of the Promise is the effect, and such conditions in a Covenant, are said to merit or earn: such were the conditions of the Covenant made with Adam: Do and live. He was to have earned his happiness in a way of doing, and this is legal.
2 Connex and Consequent, which only holds forth the Connection of things, or the way and means of conveyance, by and in which God gives the things which are promised, but not for which, and yet without which they are not given. See,