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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
Chapter 3: Scripture Evidence that there is such a Covenant of Redemption.
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 God hath from all Eternity Elected a number of Mankind to Glory. The Scripture is so fall and clear for this, that it would be superfluous to insist upon it. This is the beginning of all saving good which comes to any of the Children of Men. From hence it is that […] its rise, Eph. 1.3, 4, 5. 1 Thes. 1.4 […] Hitherto is the application of grace in Effectual Vocation restrained, Acts 13.46. Ro. 11.7. and what else can be designed in that Everlasting Love that God bears to men, from whence their Conversion proceeds? Jer. 31.3. nor can all the Evasions of men, elude the application of these, and many more Scriptures, to Eternal Election. If Redemption and Salvation belong to the Works of God, then there was a Decree that past concerning them, unless we will deny that God works in them as a Cause by Counsel.
1. That God hath from all Eternity Elected a number of Mankind to Glory. The Scripture is so fall and clear for this, that it would be superfluous to insist upon it. This is the beginning of all saving good which comes to any of the Children of Men. From hence it is that 〈…〉 its rise, Eph. 1.3, 4, 5. 1 Thes. 1.4 〈…〉 Hitherto is the application of grace in Effectual Vocation restrained, Acts 13.46. Ro. 11.7. and what else can be designed in that Everlasting Love that God bears to men, from whence their Conversion proceeds? Jer. 31.3. nor can all the Evasions of men, elude the application of these, and many more Scriptures, to Eternal Election. If Redemption and Salvation belong to the Works of God, then there was a Decree that past concerning them, unless we will deny that God works in them as a Cause by Counsel.