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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.
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I. A Heart that is made fit to deal with God in such a way; and that is (in brief) an Heart that is inwardly ⟨p. 136⟩principled with saving Grace: A Heart that hath truly made choice of God in Jesus Christ for the object of his Faith and Love. An Heart which (as the Needle in the Compass which is truly touched) what-ever shakings it may have, yet never rests till it comes to point directly to its Pole-Star: Though by the force of many temptations he may turn aside from God, yet hath a true inclination of Soul towards him; though often hurried by Satan and his own corruption, yet hath the Root of the Matter in him. Such an heart had David, though sometimes overtaken and born down with great Sins; and this God had respect to when He was under greatest provocations.
I. A Heart that is made fit to deal with God in such a way; and that is (in brief) an Heart that is inwardly ⟨p. 136⟩principled with saving Grace: A Heart that hath truly made choise of God in Jesus Christ for the object of his Faith and Love. An Heart which (as the Needle in the Compass which is truely toucht) what-ever shakings it may have, yet never rests till it comes to point directly to its Pole-Star: Though by the force of many temptations he may turn aside from God, yet hath a true inclination of Soul towards him; though often hurried by Satan and his own corruption, yet hath the Root of the Matter in him. Such an heart had David, though sometimes overtaken and born down with great Sins; and this God had respect to when He was under greatest provocations.