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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.
In the application of this Doctrine, I shall wave all other improvement which might have been made of it, that so I may have the more room and opportunity to press this Use of Exhortation; viz. That as it concerns all the People of God in what things soever they have to deal about with Him, so it especially calls upon us, who are this day engaging our selves to God in the matter of the Covenant, to take special heed to our selves that in all this Procedure our hearts be right with God. I might here urge many things by way of Motive, but let these two or three suffice, viz.
In the application of this Doctrine, I shall wave all other improvement which might have been made of it, that so I may have the more room and opportunity to press this Vse of Exhortation; viz. That as it concernes all the People of God in what things soever they have to deal about with Him, so it especially calls upon us, who are this day engaging our selves to God in the matter of the Covenant, to take special heed to our selves that in all this Procedure our hearts be right with God. I might here urge many things by way of Motive, but let these two or three suffice, viz.
I. Consider whom you have now to do and transact withal. I know you have to do one with another, but this is not your main business, that is with God, and if it be God you are now engaging with, let it then be thought upon.
1 Whether He do not deserve your hearts: if not He, Who? Hath He not made them? Doth He not uphold and preserve them? Cannot He make them happy or miserable? All that He hath done for you, all that He hath revealed in the Promise which He is ready to perform in your behalf if you truly seek it of Him, challengeth your hearts to be devoted unto Him; yea, you do here engage your selves to be His, and can