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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.
INFERENCE I.
We may here see the ground of the certainty, and infallibility of the Conversion and Salvation of all Gods Elect. The ⟨p. 110⟩right conception and consideration of this Covenant, will take away all doubts about it, and afford many undeniable evidences of it; and in particular.
1. We may strongly argue from the inexpressible love of God, which herein discovers it self abundantly. The same love which gave Christ for us in the fullness of time, provided him for us in the days of Eternity; and that is set forth as incomparable, Joh. 5.16. God so loved, &c: there is no reddition. Nay here is the Emphasis of it; he not only gave him for us when we needed him but he provided him for us before we needed him: that he made sure of this salvation for us before all ages and generations. This Covenant was the Lords own Doing every way, and may well be marvellous in our eyes. He first thought of it, when there was none to put him in mind of it in his Infinite Wisdom; and he Indented it: and sure he would never have done all this if his heart had not been set upon the Salvation of his Chosen. It was he who propounded, and ratified this Covenant with his own Son,