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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.
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 ⟨p. 55⟩a Proviso, that the Covenant shall not be baulked, and that therefore the Salvation intended should make no breach upon, nor offer any violence to the Rule of Justice ▪ but that it should in all points be complied withal, and mans Salvation be so effected as that no jot or tittle of the Law should pass: for so it is brought about, Math. 5.18. and that Justice and Peace should agree in one, Psal 85.10. that God should be Just in Justifying of the […]. Rom. •.26▪
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 ⟨p. 55⟩a Proviso, that the Covenant shall not be baulked, and that therefore the Salvation intended should make no breach upon, nor offer any violence to the Rule of Justice ▪ but that it should in all points be complied withal, and mans Salvation be so effected as that no jot or tittle of the Law should pass: for so it is brought about, Math. 5.18. and that Justice and Peace should agree in one, Psal 85.10. that God should be Just in Justifying of the 〈…〉. Rom. •.26▪