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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.
3. In the one the good and happy estate of the Soul is made sure, and stands firmly built upon a foundation which is immovable; he that once truly believes in Christ is as secure of his blessedness, as those that are now in full possession of it, Rom. 11.29. But in the other, Man stands only upon conditions, according to his ⟨p. 28⟩performing, or non-performing of which he must expect to stand or fall. My meaning is, the condition is in one performed, or so engaged in, that the Promise is ratified▪ in the other it may yet stand unperformed, and so the subject of it is yet upon a hazardous bottom, and may be lost and perish for all his relation to it, Rom. 3.13.
3. In the one the good and happy estate of the Soul is made sure, and stands firmly built upon a foundation which is immoveable; he that once truly believes in Christ is as secure of his blessedness, as those that are now in full possession of it, Rom. 11.29. But in the other, Man stands only upon conditions, according to his ⟨p. 28⟩performi•g, or non-performing of which he must expect to stand or fall. My meaning is, the condition is in one performed, or so engaged in, that the Promise is ratified▪ in the other it may yet stand unperformed, and so the subject of it is yet upon a hazardous bottom, and may be lost and perish for all his relation to it, Rom. 3.13.