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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.
4. In the Covenant of Redemption there was no Mediator: there were only the Parties indenting. There was indeed no need of a Mediator, for there was no difference between God and Christ to be taken up, for they were perfectly satisfied one in another; neither was there any ground of distrust between God and Christ, for they could readily take each others Word and Promise: nor had they any reason or occasion to suspect one another. Indeed there could not ••ssibly be a Mediator in that transaction, for there […] none that was capable to be an interposing Party between God the Father and Son. But in the Covenant of Reconciliation there is a Mediator, Jesus Christ, who stands between both, that He may bring God and Man into Covenant together, and maintain the bond of it, occupying the room of a Surety, undertaking, and giving security that there shall be fair and faithful dealing on both hands. ⟨p. 24⟩Hence we have that assertion, Heb. 12.24. Jesus the Mediator of the New-Covenant, which belongs to the Covenant of Reconciliation: Fallen Man is jealous of God, because he knows Him not, and conscious of his own ill-deserving: God is justly jealous of Man, who is become a l•er, a faithless creature, and not to be trusted, always ready to falsify his Oath, and break his Covenant. Hence in such a Covenant wherein Man is to be dealt withal as one Party in it, there was necessity of a Mediator, else there could have been no safe and secure transaction with him. Other difference might have been propounded, but these ma• suffice to show that there is a real and essential difference between those two Covenants.
4. In the Covenant of Redemption there was no Mediator: there were only the Parties indenting. There was indeed no need of a Mediator, for there was no difference between God and Christ to be taken up, for they were perfectly satisfied one in another; neither was there any ground of distrust between God and Christ, for they could readily take each others Word and Promise: nor had they any reason or occasion to suspect one another. Indeed there could not ••ssibly be a Mediator in that transaction, for there 〈…〉 none that was capable to be an interposing Party between God the Father and Son. But in the Covenant of Reconciliation there is a Mediator, Jesus Christ, who stands between both, that He may bring God and Man into Covenant together, and maintain the bond of it, occuping the room of a Surety, undertaking, and giving security that there shall be fair and faithfull dealing on both hands.