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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. Yet the Covenant of Works positively and inexorably requires Satisfaction for all the breaches made upon it. It will have Reparation for all damages, and Thunders Curses upon all that become Transgressors of it in any one Article, Gal. 3.10. and God, whose honour •ands engaged to it, to see that there ⟨p. 83⟩be no injury offered to it, will take care that it shall be answered to the least punc• lio, Math. 5.18. This Law being at first given for a Rule of Relative Justice, must be exactly kept to: so that there is no indulgence to be expected.
2. Yet the Covenant of Works positively and inexora•ly requires Satisfaction for all the breaches made upon it. It will have Reparation for all damages, and Thunders Curses upon all that become Transgressors of it in any one Article, Gal. 3.10. and God, whose honour •ands engaged to it, to see that there ⟨p. 83⟩be no injury offered to it, will take care that it shall be answered to the least punc• lio, Math. 5.18. This Law being at first given for a Rule of Relative Justice, must be exactly kept to: so that there is no indulgence to be expected.
3. Hence without the coming in and undertaking of a sufficient Surety, there can be no discharge to man who is become a Delinquent. The Scripture tells us that the Sinner is Guilty: that he is bound fast; that he is concluded or shut up under Sin. The word that is Translated, is in danger,