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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.
That these two Covenants are not only diverse, but opposite, the Scripture seems to declare, though this being the opposition of Species, there are many things in ⟨p. 17⟩which they do agree; and there have been dangerous errors which have arose from mistakes in this point: It may not then be amiss for prevention here to put in two or three Considerations.
1. The Covenant of Works and of Grace agree in the general nature of a Covenant: for this we may see the description given under the former Head, for they are both of them equally Covenants: My meaning is, the transactions in them are Analogical, or accommodated to our conceptions of a Covenant, in both alike.
1. The Covenant of Works and of Grace agree in the general nature of a Covenant: for this we may see the description given under the former Head, for they are both of them equally Covenants: My meaning is, the transactions in them are Analogicall, or accomodated to our conceptions of a Covenant, in both alike.
2. The Covenant of Works is not destroyed, but accomplished by the Covenant of Grace. The Covenant of Works was in some sense an everlasting Covenant, for it was not to be taken away by disannulling, but by accomplishment: This he who knew his own Work professeth, Mat. 5.17. I am not come to destroy, but to fulfil, viz. The Law, i. e. the first Covenant for He came to merit Heaven for us in a way of Doing▪ and in this sense one Covenant is not against another: See,