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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.
1. That there are no promises of Gods special favour Recorded in His Word, but what do belong unto some Covena•• or other. All Gods d••lings with mankind, which refer to their Everlasting Estate, are in the way of a Covenant. As soon as God had Created man, he plighted a Covenant ⟨p. 116⟩with him, in which Life and Death were set before him: and when the Covenant was violated by mans sin, and he had forfeited the Life that was promised, and purchased the Death threatened in that God having a design of saving a number of this unhappy race, made the discoveries of an Hope to him, by bringing in a New Covenant, & this was revealed unto man immediately upon his Apostasy. This indeed is a way best suited to the nature of man; and God hath vouchsafed thus to accommodate himself thereunto, see, Psal. 111.9. Isa. 55.3. And elsewhere frequently.
1. That there are no promises of Gods special favour Recorded in His Word, but what do belong unto some Covena•• or other. All Gods d••lings with mankind, which refer to their Everlasting Estate, are in the way of a Covenant. As soon as God had Created man, he plighted a Covenant ⟨p. 116⟩with him, in which Life and Death were set before him: and when the Covenant was violated by mans sin, and he had forfeited the Life that was promised, and purchased the Death threatned in that God having a design of saving a number of this unhappy race, made the discoveries of an Hope to him, by bringing in a New Covenant, & this was revealed unto man immediately upon his Apostasy. This indeed is a way best suited to the nature of man; and God hath vouchsafed thus to accommodate himself thereunto, see, Psal. 111.9. Isa. 55.3. And elsewhere frequently.