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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.
II. We are to consider what Covenant this is which is here intend•d, and something of its distinct nature: and that the way unto this may be made clear, we must take a brief survey and view of the whole transaction between God and Man, since the time that God created him upon the earth, and the accommodation of each Covenant to the state of Map, whether pure or lapsed.
II. We are to consider what Covenant this is which is here intend•d, and something of its dictinct nature: and that the way unto this may be made clear, we must take a brief survey and view of the whole transaction between God and Man, since the time that God created him upon the earth, and the accommodation of each Covenant to the state of Map, whether pure or lapsed.
lNow these Covenants are of two sorts, viz. of Works, and of Grace; and are usually called the Old and the New Covenant: of each I shall speak something, to show wherein they agree, and wherein they differ.
lNow these Covenants are of two sorts, viz. of Works, and of Grace; and are usually called the Old and the New Covenant: of each I shall speak something, to shew wherein they agree, and wherein they differ.
- lSee Dr. Gouge Comment. on Heb. 8.6, 7, 8.