N00461:10
Promise-keeping a great duty. As it was delivered in a sermon / by Samuel…
Promise-keeping a great duty. As it was delivered in a sermon / by Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines from Proverbs]
Boston: printed by Benjamin Harris, 1691
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.
There are two things which our Apostle endeavours to make good.
1. That when he made that promise to them, it was without levity, i. e. that it was serious, real, according to his present intention, with a due subordination to Gods Will and Providence, verse 17.2. That there was a just and necessary hindrance which intervened, by which he was prevented from doing what he had so purposed, and brought him under an obligation to take other measures, so that he was not in the least blame-worthy on this matter: Our Text belongs to the former of these; and in it there are two things to be taken notice of,
1. A strong Asseveration; as God is true: in the Greek it is an abrupt form of Speech; God ⟨p. 3⟩True: To omit other Interpretations, this kind of expression is used in Scripture as an Elliptical invocation of God, in adjuring him, and carries in it the nature of an […]; it is q. d. as su••e as God is true, or, I appeal to the God of Truth; and thus that phrase, God lives, is divers times rendered, as God lives; and this shows that Paul accounted it no trifling matter to be suspected in this thing: as having been well in••••cted not to use additional asseverations and appeals unto God, as words of course in his ordinary Communication, but only at such time as the case did require it.
1. A strong Asseveration; as God is true: in the Greek it is an abrupt form of Speech; God ⟨p. 3⟩True: To omit other Interpretations, this kind of expression is used in Scripture as an Ellyptical invocation of God, in adjuring him, and carries in it the nature of an ; it is q. d. as sue as God is true, or, I appeal to the God of Truth; and thus that phrase, God lives, is divers times rendred, as God lives; and this shews that Paul accounted it no trifling matter to be suspected in this thing: as having been well incted not to use additional asseverations and appeals unto God, as words of course in his ordinary Communication, but only at such time as the case did require it.