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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.
3. All these are firmly promised and engaged to Christ in this Covenant, they shall be his Seed, upon the performance of the Articles that were proposed unto him. This was one Encouragement that his Father offered to him, see Isa. 13.10 Psal. 22.30. and how do they come to be the Seed of Christ, and consequently the Children of God, but by being brought into the Covenant of Grace, and under the Promise of Eternal Life, Gal. 3.26. Now this was the Word and Promise of God himself; The Unchangeable God, the God that cannot Lie: and it is made to his own Son; and upon it he undertook the work, and went through it, in expectation of the complete Accomplishment of it, Heb. 12.2. for the Joy that was set before him, &c. and what can we possibly conceive to be more firm?
3. All these are firmly promised and engaged to Christ in this Covenant, they shall be his Seed, upon the performance of the Articles that were proposed unto him. This was one Encouragement that his Father offered to him, see Isa. 13.10 Psal. 22.30. and how do they come to be the Seed of Christ, and consequently the Children of God, but by being brought into the Covenant of Grace, and under the Promise of Eternal Life, Gal. 3.26. Now this was the Word and Promise of God himself; The Unchangeable God, the God that cannot Lie: and it is made to his own Son; and upon it he undertook the work, and went through it, in expectation of the compleat Accomplishment of it, Heb. 12.2. for the Joy that was set before him, &c. and what can we possibly conceive to be more firm?