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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.
A. They were such as these that follow, viz.
1. That a certain number of Mankind should be made the Monuments of Rich ⟨p. 54⟩Grace: or, That the Glorious Attribute of Grace should be exalted in the Eternal Salvation of a Definite Company of men; and to this Article belongs the consideration of mans being Created in his Integrity; put under a Covenant; and permitted to fall from it, and make himself miserable, in order to the making way for the Illustration of this Grace. That such a thing should be, was voluntary on Gods part, and therefore there past a Decree for it: and this being Essential, it belongs to all the Three persons. Hence the Scripture speaks of mens being Ordained or appointed to Glory, and of their being Elected or Chosen to the Kingdom: which expressions, denote this eternal designation, which was agreed upon, and so past between God, Father, Son, and Spirit; see▪ 1. Thes. 5, 9. Mark. 13.20. 1 Thes. 1.4.2. Thes. 2.13. and all this was with an eye to the glorifying o• the Grace of God, Eph 1.6.
2 That in order to the Illustration of this Grace in mans Salvation, the first Covenant should be Satisfied in all the demands of it, That whatsoever that required should be fully responded. The consideration of mans being under a Law Covenant, and forfeiting himself to the Curse of it, being supposed in the former Article; there is