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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. The first Covenant is to be compounded with all and satisfied, the demands of the Law must be answered, and that must be according to the rigour of Justice; every Condition of it must therefore be fulfilled to a tittle & [Greek or Hebrew] Mat. 5.18. There is never a syllable of merciful condescendency in that Covenant; nor, though fallen Man be a Bankrupt and broken Merchant, will it ever come to any losing composition with him; whither he have or have not to pay, it will have all its due in weight and measure.
1. The first Covenant is to be compounded with all and satisfied, the demands of the Law must be answered, and that must be according to the rigour of Justice; every Condition of it must therefore be fulfilled to a tittle & 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 Mat. 5.18. There is never a syllable of mercifull condescendency in that Covenant; nor, though fallen Man be a Bankrupt and broken Merchant, will it ever come to any losing composition with him; whither he have or have not to pay, it will have all its due in weight and measure.
2. The Condition of the New-Covenant must be performed, for, in, and by those that are brought under it. For, though there are other Conditions, and such as are suited to the state of fallen Man, and the manifestation of the Grace of God to him, yet they are as positive unalterable Conditions as those of the first, nand do as certainly exclude from happiness and sentence unto misery, those that fall short of them, as did the first, Mark, 16.16. Now these are two distinct things, and unto them are adapted two distinct Covenants, though both are full of Grace to fallen Man, which will be further cleared when we consider the difference between them. And indeed the want of this consideration is that which puzzles many a soul, and makes them confused in diverse conceptions which they have concerning the Covenant: for (as learned