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The doctrine of the covenant of redemption. Wherein is laid the foundation of all…
The doctrine of the covenant of redemption. Wherein is laid the foundation of all our hopes and happiness. Briefly opened and improved. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. ; [Three lines from Psalms]
Boston: printed by Benj. Harris over against the Old-Meeting-House, 1693
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.
That the Covenant of Grace has for ⟨image ?⟩the substance of it been the same in all Ages, differing only in Circumstances & as to the manner of dispensations is denied by the Old Pelagians, and by Socinians, Arminians, and some Baptists at this day. But the Scripture assureth us, That Believers under the Old-Testament were not made perfect without us. Heb. 11.40. They & we are saved by the same Christ & by the same Covenant, the Mediator of the Covenant has always been the same, Yesterday, to day, & for ever the same. The Son of God was an Intercessor for his People before his Incarnation. Zach. 1:12. Believers under the Old-Testament were secured by him. Neither is there salvation in any other. If then the Patriarchs were ••ved (as we know they were) it was by Jesus Christ: No man was ever saved since the world began but by him. Under the Old-Testament Faith in Christ was necessary in order to Justification & Salvation To him give all the Prophets Witness that through his Name, whoever believeth in him shall receive remission of sins. Promises which do concern Spiritual and Eternal ⟨image ?⟩as well as Temporal blessings, were made to Old-Testament believers. Our Saviour proveth that the bodies of Saints shall have a Glorious Resurrection to Eternal Life from the Covenant made with Abraham. They of old, Looked for a City which has Foundations, whose maker and builder is God. Which, if Heaven (and not Temporal Blessings only) had not been Promised them, they would not have done. Now if there is an […] as to the Mediator, the Condition, the promises of the Covenant made with Believers in the days of the Old Testament and of the New, the Covenant must needs be effectually the same. When therefore by the Old & the New-Covenant, that of Works and of Grace are intended, the distribution is of the Genus into its Species. But when the Covenant of Grace as under the Legal or Evangelical dispensation, is meant (& so it often is in the Scripture) the distinction is of the same subject according to its various adjuncts.
That the Covenant of Grace has for ⟨image ?⟩