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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
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 the Righteousness of Christ is a Robe suitable and sufficient to cover our Sins.
2. How God casts it over us to this purpose?
1. That the Righteousness of Christ is a Robe sufficient and suitable to cover our Sins. As Sin is compared in Scripture to our Nakedness and Shame, so is Christs Righteousness resembled by a Robe provided to cover it withal: and as it was Sin that first gave occasion for mans needing something to cover his Body, so it introduceth the necessity of Christ to hide the nakedness and filthiness of our ⟨p. 72⟩Souls. This is designed by the best Robe, Luk. 15. 22. This is pointed at in the White Raiment, Rev. 3. 18. And this is the Wedding Garment, Matth. 22. 11. Now this Robe is made of the Active and Passive Obedience of Christ, for the matter of it. By the former of these he kept the Law exactly, Fulfilling all Righteousness, Matth. 3. 15. He was Holy, Harmless, Undefiled, and without Spot. By the latter he made full satisfaction to the Law in all its demands, by bearing the whole penalty that was threatened in it for Sin. And the sufficiency of this Garment to cover all the Guilt of our Sin herein appears.
1. That the Righteousness of Christ is a Robe sufficient and suitable to cover our Sins. As Sin is compared in Scripture to our Nakedness and Shame, so is Christs Righteousness resembled by a Robe provided to cover it withal: and as it was Sin that first gave occasion for mans needing something to cover his Body, so it introduceth the necessity of Christ to hide the nakedness and filthiness of our