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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 You shall here find all these conditions which are thus required of you in the Covenant of Grace to be firmly and faithfully undertaken for by the Lord Jesus Christ. For, we observed before, that in the Covenant of Redemption, one Condition that was laid upon and required of the Son of God, was that he should bring many Sons to Glory; and for that end he undertook to do all that for them and in them, that was requisite for the accomplishment of it: so that he stands obliged not only to answer the Law for them, but the Gospel too. The fulfilment of every condition that is necessary in order to their Participation in Life Eternal, is incumbent on him to see to; If there be any thing, which is a necessary medium to Glory, required of us, ⟨p. 147⟩he is engaged to […] it done in us and for us, else it would not be a Complete work of Redemption. If He should deliver us from the Law, so far as to make it a possibility for us to be saved by Grace, and yet leave us to Perish for want of the Evangelical Obedience, without which there is no Salvation, we were in a miserable state; for we can no more do this of our selves than we could the other: but it is far otherwise. That would be an Arminian mock Redemption; and it would be but to save us from one Hell, to throw us into a Worse. But, as the Son of God was to answer the Law for us, so was he to give us the Grace and Strength to answer the Gospel in all the Demands of it: and therefore the security is in him, whose Strength will Manifest and Magnify it self in our Weakness
1 You shall here find all these conditions which are thus required of you in the Covenant of Grace to be firmly and faithfully undertaken for by the Lord Jesus Christ. For, we observed before, that in the Covenant of Redemption, one Condition that was laid upon and required of the Son of God, was that he should bring many Sons to Glory; and for that end he undertook to do all that for them and in them, that was requisite for the accomplishment of it: so that he stands obliged not only to answer the Law for them, but the Gospel too. The fulfilment of every condition that is necessary in order to their Participation in Life Eternal, is incumbent on him to see to; If there be any thing, which is a necessary medium to Glory, required of us, ⟨p. 147⟩he is engaged to 〈…〉 it done in us and for us, else it would not be a Compleat work of Redemption. If He should deliver us from the Law, so far as to make it a possibility for us to be saved by Grace, and yet leave us to Perish for want of the Evangelical Obedience, without which there is no Salvation, we were in a miserable state; for we can no more do this of our selves than we could the other: but it is far otherwise. That would be an Arminian mock Redemption; and it would be but to save us from one Hell, to throw us into a Worse. But, as the Son of God was to answer the Law for us, so was he to give us the Grace and Strength to answer the Gospel in all the Demands of it: and therefore the security is in him, whose Strength will Manifest and Magnify it self in our Weakness