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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.
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 oDoctor Owen well observes) to the understanding, conceptions, and notions that Men have of the Covenant of God, and as this Doctrine is stated in their minds, so are their conceptions of all other sacred Truths conformed.
- nSee Pareus on Gen. 18.19.
- oPreface to Covenant of Redemption opened.
pOf these Covenants the first is by divines called the Covenant of Redemption, and the other the Covenant of Reconciliation: For although God be reconciled in the first, or satisfaction is given Him, which he takes […] with on the account of all His chosen, yet the actual transaction between God and Man, or mutual Reconciliation is accomplished in the second. In the first is the Price of Man's Ransom paid, and he by Price redeemed, therefore styled of Redemption. In the second, the application of it is made, and the heart of Sinners is reconciled unto God: Hence termed of Reconciliation. When the Scripture speaks of the Covenant of Grace, it sometimes