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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.
1. The Investing him with such Offices as were needful for the discharge of this g••at Work. It was meet that the Son of God should come with Authority. There were great things to be done in the performance of this Business; and the acceptance of all depended on the good pleasure of God: The Redeemer therefore must not only be designed but Invested. The Son of God was, in our Nature to be Inaugurated ⟨p. 61⟩in his Mediatorly Function; hence his being Anointed King, was according to the Decree, Psal. 2.9, 8. and hereupon also he is said to be an Everlasting Priest, Psal. 110.7. and a designed Prophet, Isa. 42.6, 7. for these Prophetical Predictions concerning him, were discoveries of the Tenor of this Covenant.
1. The Investing him with such Offices as were needful for the discharge of this g••at Work. It was meet that the Son of God should come with Authority. There were great things to be done in the performance of this Business; and the acceptance of all depended on the good pleasure of God: The Redeemer therefore must not only be designed but Invested. The Son of God was, in our Nature to be Inaugurated ⟨p. 61⟩in his Mediatorly Function; hence his being Anointed King, was according to the Decree, Psal. 2.9, 8. and hereupon also he is said to be an Everlasting Priest, Psal. 110.7. and a designed Prophet, Isa. 42.6, 7. for these Prophetical Predictions concerning him, were discoveries of the Tenour of this Covenant.