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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.
3. In every Covenant there is a mutual obligation; and herein consists the form or distinct nature of it: hereby it is distinguished from a mere bond or obligation, for though in that there be two Parties, and also an engagement, yet this engagement is but on one side, it is not mutual; and the reason of this difference lies here, because a bare bond, is an acknowledgement of a debt due upon the account of something already received in hand, unto the payment whereof he herein so far gives security: but a Covenant is an agreement about something to be done on the one part, and upon the due performance of it, there is something to be received on the other part, and that the one may have his work done, and the other may not loose his recompense, hence there is mutual security given, and this is properly a Covenant: Thus the Covenant between God and us runs upon such terms, I will be to you a God, and you shall be to me a People, Exod. 6, 7.
3. In every Covenant there is a mutual obligation; and herein consists the form or distinct nature of it: hereby it is distinguished from a meer bond or obligation, for though in that there be two Parties, and also an engagement, yet this engagement is but on one side, it is not mutual; and the reason of this difference lyes here, because a bare bond, is an acknowledgment of a debt due upon the account of something already received in hand, unto the payment whereof he herein so far gives security: but a Covenant is an agreement about something to be done on the one part, and upon the due performance of it, there is something to be received on the other part, and that the one may have his work done, and the other may not loose his recompence, hence there is mutual security given, and this is properly a Covenant: Thus the Covenant between God and us runs upon such terms, I will be to you a God, and you shall be to me a People, Exod. 6, 7.
But for our more full consideration of the mutual engagement of a Covenant, we may observe a few particulars explicatory, viz.