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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. When one Party stands in no more need of such a Covenant then the other, the one hath as much dependence as the other, and no more, there is no more natural tie or necessity here or there, here also is some sort of equality.
3. When one Party stands in no more need of such a Covenant then the other, the one hath as much dependence as the other, and no more, there is no more natural tye or necessity here or there, here also is some sort of equality.
2. kOthers are made between superiors and inferiors; where I also consider superiority and inferiority, not barely as it may be in the subjects themselves, their nature, station, &c. but only as they stand unequally in the Covenant, and this difference is to be considered in two respects.
2. kOthers are made between superiours and inferiours; where I also consider superiority and inferiority, not barely as it may be in the subjects themselves, their nature, station, &c. but only as they stand unequally in the Covenant, and this difference is to be considered in two respects.
- kImpar, quo altera pars confoederatorum est superior alterae inferior Idem.
1. Whither the Parties in all other respects be equal or no. Yet when the one Party hath a necessary dependence upon the other, for some benefit which he absolutely wants, and is to receive from him, which the other hath no need to confer upon him, nor is any ways advantaged by that which he is to do for him, and he therefore doth it merely upon the others necessity, for which he expects some acknowledgement, and accordingly condescends to terms of agreement, thus the borrower is a Servant to the lender: Thus a Potent Prince sometimes undertakes the protection of a distressed State. Thus also God in Christ undertakes the defence and salvation of a Company of poor undone perishing Sinners that stood in absolute need of His help, but of whom he had no need, but only to do them a pleasure, and thus Hezekiah pleads the Covenant of God,