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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.
5. By reason of mutual obligation, and that with respect to performance and recompense. Hence in every Covenant there are two things always to be distinctly, and carefully considered, namely the conditions and the consequents.
5. By reason of mutual obligation, and that with respect to performance and recompence. Hence in every Covenant there are two things alwayes to be distinctly, and carefully considered, namely the conditions and the consequents.
1. Conditions, wherein there is something required of, and engaged in to be performed by the one Party, this is so essential, that there can be no Covenant without a Condition. They are grossly mistaken who would propound that, as one difference between the Covenant of Works, and that of Grace.
1. Conditions, wherein there is something required of, and engaged in to be performed by the one Party, this is so essential, that there can be no Covenant without a Condition. They are grosly mistaken who would propound that, as one difference between the Covenant of Works, and that of Grace.
That that had Conditions in it, but this hath none, but is absolute, or a free and full Promise without any Condition. To deny it to have Conditions, is to deny it to be a Covenant. In the Covenant of Grace Believers not only have a hope, but it is a grounded hope, and it is grounded in th• Covenant. Now that ground of hope which flows from the Covenant to the Pa••v standing engaged to service, is properly from the condition of it; why else might not every one to whom the Gospel is propounded enjoy this hope? contrary to,