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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.
1. That Holiness and Justice are considered in Efficiency as Relative Attributes. Divines distinguish of those Attributes which appear to us in the consideration of Gods Sufficiency, and those that are discovered in his Efficiency. These latter are called Relative, because there is a Relation to the Creature evidently appears in the […] of them; and such are t••se. Holiness is seen in Gods managing all the Affairs of the Creature so as to gain •lory to […] by all. Justice, in Gods standing by his own Law, and the terms of the Covenant which past between him, and Rational Beings: so that these •o suppose the Reasonable Creature ⟨p. 73⟩as the Subject in which they are manifested, and a Transaction between God and them, as the ground of that proceeding: and therefore the declaration or display of them terminates on the Creature.
1. That Holiness and Justice are cons•dered in Efficiency as Relative Attributes. Divines distinguish of those Attributes which appear to us in the consideration of Gods Suffic•ency, and those that are discovered in his Efficiency. These latter are called Relative, because there is a Relation to the Creature evidently appears in the 〈…〉 of them; and such are t••se. H•liness is seen in Gods managing all the Affairs of the Creature so as to gain •lory to 〈…〉 by all. Justice, in Gods standing by his own Law, and the terms of the Covenant which past between him, and Ration•l Beings: so that these •o suppose the Reasonable Creature ⟨p. 73⟩as the Subject in which they are manifested, and a Transaction between God and them, as the ground of that proceeding: and therefore the declaration or dilay of them terminates on the Creature.