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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. What were the Articles peculiar, or the Engagements lying upon each party by himself?
A. Such there were, and here in general we are to observe: That though the Parties were equal in their Covenanting, yet in the Covenant, one Party Indented to be Inferior to the other. The Son of God was to take to himself a Nature, in which he was to be his Fathers Servant, hence he is so called, Isa. 42.1. and because there was something to be done by him first, in order to his meriting of that which he was to receive of his Father for it; this may first come under our consideration: Here then
A. Such there were, and here in general we are to observe: That though the Parties were equal in their Covenanting, yet in the Covenant, one Party Indented to be Inferiour to the other. The Son of God was to take to himself a Nature, in which he was to be his Fathers Servant, hence he is so called, Isa. 42.1. and because there was something to be done by him first, in order to his meriting of that which he was to receive of his Father for it; this may first come under our consideration: Here then
1. We may consider the Engagement which the Son took upon himself. The work of Redemption was laid upon his Shoulders, he was the party agreed upon, and consenting to take that Province upon him in his own person: and it may suffice to speak generally of this, and so his Undertaking may be comprised in two things.
1. We may consider the Engagement which the Son took upon himself. The work of Redemption was laid upon his Shoulders, he was the party agreed upon, and consenting to take that Province upon him in his own person: and it may suffice to speak generally of this, and so his Undertaking may be comprized in two things.