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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.
For Direction, that your hearts may be right in this Service;
1. Dread hypocrisy in this Work. Be awfully afraid to come before God with a false heart. There is nothing more dangerous than carnal confidence. Prepare your selves to the work by thinking seriously in your own Souls, how dreadful a thing will it be for me now to come and dissemble with the holy One of Israel? You had much better to impose upon all the World than so much as think to do so upon God. Say thus to thy self, If I should now come and plight Promises, make vows, enter a Covenant, and my heart not be in it, I shall pull down curses upon my own Soul. Shall I call the God of heaven & of earth to witness to a lye? Shall I invite His solemn presence to a mockery? And shall I not in so doing draw down and hasten vengeance upon mine own head?
1. Dread hypocrisie in this Work. Be awfully afraid to come before God with a false heart. There is nothing more dangerous than carnal confidence. Prepare your selves to the work by thinking seriously in your own Souls, how dreadfu• a thing will it be for me now to come and dissemble with the holy One of Israel? You had much better to impose upon all the World than so much as think to do so upon God. Say thus to thy self, If I should now come and plight Promises, make vowes, enter a Covenant, and my heart not be in it, I shall pull down curses upon my own Soul. Shall I call the God of heaven & of earth to witness to a lye? Shall I invite His solemn presence to a mockery? And shal I not in so doing draw down and hasten vengeance upon mine own head?