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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.
Now our present discourse relates to the Inferior or his keeping Covenant, of which take this description: It is his performance of the Covenant-condition of Obedience: where, by the Word Obedience, I do not understand a member of Religion contradistinct from Faith, or (or as the Word is often used to express) the second Part of Divinity, but only a correspondent or suitable demeanour to that Part of the Covenant which comes from the Superior under the notion of a Law or Command, or something that is required and expected to be performed in the Covenant: which, what it is, is yet under enquiry: and we are now to discuss, viz.
Now our present discourse relates to the Inferior or his keeping Covenant, of which take this description: It is his performance of the Covenant-condition of Obedience: where, by the Word Obedience, I do not understand a member of Religion contradistinct from Faith, or (or as the Word is often used to express) the second Part of Divinity, but only a correspondent or sutable demeanure to that Part of the Covenant which comes from the Superiour under the notion of a Law or Command, or something that is required and expected to be performed in the Covenant: which, what it is, is yet under enquiry: and we are now to discuss, viz.
Quest. What is the Condition required in the Covenant of Reconciliation, considered as held forth in the visible and external dispensations of the Gospel? and when this is well ⟨p. 31⟩understood, we may easily conclude what it is to keep Covenant.
Quest. What is the Condition required in the Covenant of Reconciliation, considered as held forth in the visible and externall dispensations of the Gospell? and when this is well ⟨p. 31⟩understood, we may easily conclude what it is to keep Covenant.