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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.
2. The other Party is the Son of God, the Second Person in the Trinity, who is Coeternal with the Father. The Covenant being Eternal, there could not be any party in it, but one who was an Eternal Person. Whosoever is engaged in a Covenant, which is a voluntary act, must be presumed to Exist, cither in himself, or in his Representative. Nor is this disputed whether the Son of God be the other party: but yet there is no little difference in the notions about the quality or respect in which he stands as a ⟨p. 24⟩party in this Covenant. The Son of God is considered under a treble notion.
2. The other Party is the Son of God, the Second Person in the Trinity, who is Coeternal with the Father. The Covenant being Eternal, there could not be any party in it, but one who was an Eternal Person. Whosoever is engaged in a Covenant, which is a voluntary act, must be presumed to Exist, cither in himse•f, or in his Representative. Nor is this disputed whether the Son of God be the other party: but yet there is no little difference in the notions about the qualility or respect in which he stands as a ⟨p. 24⟩party in this Covenant. The Son of God is considered under a treble notion.
1. Merely as he is a Divine Person, and so is only God.
1. Meerly as he is a Divine Person, and so is only God.
2. As he hath assumed our Nature into Union with his Person, and so is God-Man.