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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.
4. Whether it be a Covenant of Works or of Grace?
5. Who are Covenanted for?
6. What are the Articles of it?
1. Who are the Parties in this Covenant?
A. It is a general Observation that in all Covenants there are two Parties, and there can be neither less or more; for the notion of a Covenant belongs to the Head of Relation, which hath but the Relate and the Correlate, and cannot exceed. If then there are divers parties, they suppose divers Covenants. In the Covenant of Works, God and Man immediately were the Parties: In the New Covenant they are God and Man, through' the Interposition of a Mediator, unto whom both Parties have a respect. But in the Covenant of Redemption they are God & the Son. This is agreed on among all those that acknowledge such a Covenant, but under what consideration, it is depaed with reference to each party, and may be here particularly Explained.