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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.
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.
1. The Old Covenant, or Covenant of Works was accommodated to the State of Man in his innocency, and is therefore called of Works, because it was propounded under the notion of Work, and Wages: mthough there were abundance of Grace in that, taken in a large sense, for, not only all those habitual principles, with which Man was furnished, as Knowledge, Righteousness and Holiness, empowering him to do his duty, which were Additions to his Nature, and are entitled the Image of God; were Gods free gift: nay, His Creation it self was an effect ⟨p. 16⟩Gods bounty, who did not owe him a Being: but also the reward proposed was of that Nature and Value, as that the Pepper-corn of Man's most perfect obedience, (which could no ways enrich or profit his Lord) could not be thought to hold a valuable proportion to it: Yet, notwithstanding, there was a Rule of Justice also attended in this matter (which is no Egyptian Task-Master, requiring Bricks where no Straw is given) God therefore made Man upright,