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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.
Doct. God hath in the Gospel promised everlasting mercies to all those that keep his Covenant.
The matter now to be treated of, being the Covenant, in which Gods professed People stand obliged, and principally that part of it which is incumbent on them to look carefully to, that we may the more clearly understand ⟨p. 6⟩it: The explication may be taken up in considering. 1. Something of the nature of a Covenant in general. 2. What Covenant is here intended, and something of its distinct nature. 3. What it is to keep this Covenant. 4. What are those everlasting mercies that are therein engaged. 5. The evidence, and grounds or reasons of the Doctrine▪ Of these in order.
The matter now to be treated of, being the Covenant, in which Gods professed People stand obliged, and principally that part of it which is incumbent on them to look carefully to, that we may the more clearly understand ⟨p. 6⟩it: The explication may be taken up in considering. 1. Something of the nature of a Covenant in general. 2. What Covenant is here intended, and something of its distinct nature. 3. What it is to keep this Covenant. 4. What are those everlasting mercies that are therein ingaged. 5. The evidence, and grounds or reasons of the Doctrine▪ Of these in order.
I. Concerning the nature of a Covenant in general▪ e