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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 Here we learn what were the Everlasting thoughts of God concerning us, even thoughts of mercy and peace, when we find our names written in That Book, we are sure that God Remembered us before we were or any other creature to make mention of us to him: and what a sweet and ravishing contemplation is here. The Physician was provided before the Malady was contracted, when we were not, God thought of us for good, and made the way of this good sure and unalterable: he enrolled a Covenant for us in the Records o• Eternity. The Father and Son did, of their own accord, thus consult for the Everlasting welfare of a company of worthless Worms: they contrived the matter between themselves, resolved to build the Declarative Glory of Divine Grace upon so mean a Subject as sorry man. Here we see what a difference was put between us and the Children of Wrath; how precious Gods thoughts of us were, that among such multitudes whom he passed by, he ⟨p. 154⟩should fix his heart upon us, and mark us out for a Kingdom, and how astonishing a thing is this?
1 Here we learn what were the Everlasting thoughts of God concerning us, even thoughts of mercy and peace, when we find our names written in That Book, we are sure that God Remembered us before we were or any other creature to make mention of us to him: and what a sweet and ravishing contemplation is here. The Physician was provided before the Malady was contracted, when we were not, God thought of us for good, and made the way of this good sure and unalterable: he enrolled a Covenant for us in the Records o• Eternity. The Father and Son did, of their own accord, thus consult for the Everlasting welfare of a company of worthless Worms: they contrived the matter between themselves, resolved to build the Declarative Glory of Divine Grace upon so mean a Subject as sorry man. Here we see what a difference was put between us and the Children of Wrath; how precious Gods thoughts of us were, that among such multitudes whom he passed by, he ⟨p. 154⟩should fix his heart upon us, and mark us out for a Kingdom, and how astononishing a thing is this?