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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. 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, Rom. 8.13. And of this sort are the conditions of the Gospel-Covenant,d among which these in our text are to be numbered: and this is not legal, but purely evangelical: they merit not as Works, but only lead as the way to inherit the Promise, otherwayes many expressions in the Gospel must needs be accounted legal, where doing this and that, bears the respect of a Connex-condition. See, Heb. 12.14. Rev. 2.17. &c. Tit. 3.8. Moreover, in the legal conditions, there is required perfection, in these God respects sincerity. Hence.
2 Connex and Consequent, which only holds forth the Connexion 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, Rom. 8.13. And of this sort are the conditions of the Gospel-Covenant,d among which these in our text are to be numbred: and this is not legall, but purely evangelicall: they merit not as Works, but only lead as the way to inherit the Promise, otherwayes many expressions in the Gospel must needs be accounted legall, where doing this and that, bears the respect of a Connex-condition. See,