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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
Chapter 10: The necessity of this Covenant, in order to Mans Salvation.
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 all his Works of Efficiency, he aims at the Declaration of the Glory of his own Perfections. What else is the Declarative Glory of God, but a display of his Essential Glory to the Creature, so far as he sees meet? He had all in himself before there was a World; but he would have a World to be a Mirror of his Perfections; and those to be in it who should be able to read them, and acknowledge him therein; and therefore these are to declare it, Psal. 19. and he is said to be known by them.
2. That in all his Works of Efficiency, he aims at the Declaration of the Glory of his own Perfections. What else is the Declarative Glory of God, but a display of his Essential Glory to the Creature, so far as he sees meet? He had all in himself before there was a World; but he would have a World to be a Mirrour of his Perfections; and those to be in it who should be able to read them, and acknowledge him therein; and therefore these are to declare it, Psal. 19. and he is said to be known by them.
3. That hence he contrived all in a condecency for the expressing of his Essential Natural Perfections, and that by his Infinite Wisdom. It must needs be acknowledged and asserted, that God had a respect to those Attributes of his, which he would make known to the World, in ⟨p. 71⟩the laying out of all his Works of Efficiency in the Eternal Decree. Hence we have eminent displays of Gods Holiness, in the Displeasure that he discovers against Sin; and of his Justice in that he will not let it go unpunished. He therefore orders his Works so as these shall have their remarkable manifestation, Psal. 145.17.