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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.
USE II.
Let it serve to advise and excite all Christians to a careful and constant practice of this Duty. Among the other parts of a gospel conversation, see that you do not forget this, to be at all times true to your promises: what hath been already said in the clearing up the weight of this Duty, may be made use of as as arguments to move us to hearken to this advice, I shall therefore only add these two considerations.
Let it serve to advise and excite all Christians to a careful and constant practice of this Duty. Among the other parts of a gospel conversation, see that you do not forget this, to be at all times true to your promises: what hath been already said in the clearing up the weight of this Duty, may be made use of as as arguments to move us to hearken to this advice, I shall therefore only adde these two considerations.
1. It is your Duty to be examples in all Moral honesty, to all other men. The people of God ought to endeavour to outdo all others whatsoever, in righteousness, math. •.•0. except your Righteousness exceeds &c. The Grace of God where it is received teacheth men effectually to do these Duties, Tit 2.11 12. to live Righteously, &c. Christs Disciples are said to be the lights of the world, and for that reason they should labour so to shine, that they may win others,