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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.
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 ⟨p. 20⟩intends the one, and sometimes the other of these, and though these two agree in many things, yet the difference between them is such, as will well amount to such and so great a diversity, as to denominate them two really distinct Covenants. qThey both indeed arise from free Grace, as their Original giving Being to them, and they do each design the Glory of this Grace as their ultimate end, and the Salvation of Man as the way by which, or Man with respect to his Salvation, as the subject in which that Grace is to be glorified; and they equal extend only to the Elect, and all of these as the subjects of Application of that Grace in which they are terminated; and do lastly centre only in Christ as the undertaker, and great Efficient that is used in the accomplishment of them; for in both of these Covenants Christ stands in our Room and Place, and is responsible for us, in the one as a Sacrifice, in the other as a Surety: But yet there are diverse remarkable differences in them: For,
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 Ransome pay'd, and he by Price redeemed, therefore stiled 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