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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. When the obligation is not only mutual, but also interchangeable, viz. when each of the Parties stands alike bound, both to conditions and consequents, and this is a complicate Covenant, when the performance of it is requisite from, and the thence arising profit or loss is to fall upon both alike; of this nature or kind we are to account all Leagues offensive and defensive which are made between Kingdoms, or Colonies, no ways depending one upon another, but by acts of friendship: such also are Marriage-Covenants; for, although the Parties are in some respect unequal, yet the obligation to duty, and the benefits arising, are interchangeable.
1. When the obligation is not only mutual, but also enterchangeable, viz. when each of the Parties stands alike bound, both to conditions and consequents, and this is a complicate Covenant, when the performance of it is requisite from, and the thence arising profite or loss is to fall upon both alike; of this nature or kind we are to account all Leagues offensive and defensive which are made between Kingdoms, or Colonies, no wayes depending one upon another, but by acts of friendship: such also are Marriage-Covenants; for, although the Parties are in some respect unequal, yet the obligation to duty, and the benefits arising, are interchangeable.
2. When, although the Condition lies upon the one Party, and the consequent upon the other, or one is bound thus to do, and the other to remunerate him so doing; yet still the profit or loss is no ways more or less redounding to the one then to the other: as when ⟨p. 13⟩a Covenant is made, that such a person shall do this or that piece of service, for which (if he perform it) he is to have such a recompense; if he perform it not, he is to have nothing: here neither hath any advantage over the other: here all obligations on either side are merely hypothetical, and there is no fault in neglect.
2. When, although the Condition lyes upon the one Party, and the consequent upon the other, or one is bound thus to do, and the other to remunerate him so doing; yet still the profit or loss is no wayes more or less redounding to the one then to the other: as when