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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.
1. In every Covenant there is something to be performed, and something to be received upon performance; these two are properly the matter of a Covenant, or the things that go in to its constitution, which two when they are in a Covenant-way ratified, do constitute its form, it ariseth from, or is grounded upon the occasions of dealing or trading between one and another: in like manner we shall find in Scripture, that the Covenant of God is mainly made up of precepts and promises, for the matter of it, I say mainly, for though it be accidental to a Covenant, yet sometimes, and in some Covenants ⟨p. 9⟩there is also a forfeiture unto which the party who is bound to performance of any thing, doth stand obliged, besides the loss of the benefit he might have gained, by doing of his duty, and this also we find to be in Gods Covenant, and is comprised under the threatenings which are annexed unto it.
1. In every Covenant there is something to be performed, and something to be received upon performance; these two are properly the matter of a Covenant, or the things that go in to its constitution, which two when they are in a Covenant-way ratified, do constitute its form, it ariseth from, or is grounded upon the occasions of dealing or trading between one and another: in like manner we shall find in Scripture, that the Covenant of God is mainly made up of precepts and promises, for the matter of it, I say mainly, for though it be accidentall to a Covenant, yet sometimes, and in some Covenants ⟨p. 9⟩there is also a forfeiture unto which the party who is bound to performance of any thing, doth stand obliged, besides the loss of the benefit he might have gained, by doing of his duty, and this also we find to be in Gods Covenant, and is comprized under the threatnings which are annexed unto it.
2 The ground or reason of a Covenant is, that each Party may be secured from suffering any damage by the other; but may be able to claim and recover the performance, that the one may not fail of having his work done according to his mind, and the other when he hath done it may not be at a loss for his recompense: each Party is concerned to have security from the Party he indents withal.