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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.
2. God searcheth and trieth, and throughly knoweth all Hearts, and there is no putting Him off with out-side Services, and varnished hypocritical pretences. Men may be deceived, but God cannot; and all these who think to impose upon Him, do but cheat their own Souls, Gal. 6.7. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. God knows all the secret thoughts and purposes of Mens hearts, and they cannot hide their counsels from Him, though they mint them in the darkest corners of their Souls, Psal. 139.12, Heb. 4.12. And more especially doth He look with a curious and critical eye upon those that transact with Him in the Covenant, for He expects to be glorified by all such as draw so near unto Him.
2. God searcheth and tryeth, and throughly knoweth all Hearts, and there is no putting Him off with out-side Services, and varnished hypocritical pretences. Men may be deceived, but God cannot; and all these who think to impose upon Him, do but cheat their own Souls, Gal. 6.7. Be not deceived, God is not mocked. God knowes all the secret thoughts and purposes of Mens hearts, and they cannot hide their counsels from Him, though they mint them in the darkest corners of their Souls, Psal. 139.12, Heb. 4.12. And more especially doth He look with a curious and critical eye upon those that transact with Him in the Covenant, for He expects to be glorified by all such as draw so near unto Him.
3. God will not accept of, but severely punish all ⟨p. 139⟩