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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. hIn every Covenant there is an obligation or engagement and therein it agrees with all Bills, Bonds, mortgages, or whatsoever of the like nature. That a Covenant is an obligation, will appear from the end or intent of the making of it, and that is to give the greater security to those transactions that are between men. It is that there may be afforded the best assurance that can be for the performance of a promise: Now it is the obligation under which a man stands that puts him upon it to be the more careful to stand to what he hath promised to do, who might possibly be otherwayes slack and remiss in performing of it: And hence we read of the bond of the Covenant, Ezek. 20.37. I will bring you into the bond of the Covenant. i. e either under the forfeiture of the obligation, or else to renew ⟨p. 8⟩their obligation; and so there be some that interpret it, I will afflict you till you solemnly renew Covenant. Yea, it is so essential that sometimes the Covenant receives Denomination from it, Zech. 11.7.
2. hIn every Covenant there is an obligation or engagment and therein it agrees with all Bills, Bonds, mortgages, or whatsoever of the like nature. That a Covenant is an obligation, will appear from the end or intent of the making of it, and that is to give the greater security to those transactions that are between men. It is that there may be afforded the best assurance that can be for the performance of a promise: Now it is the obligation under which a man stands that puts him upon it to be the more carefull to stand to what he hath promised to do, who might possibly be otherwayes slack and remiss in performing of it: And hence we read of the bond of the Covenant, Ezek. 20.37. I will bring you into the bond of the Covenant. i. e either under the forfeiture of the obligation, or else to renew ⟨p. 8⟩