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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.
2. Hence in the act of Justification he confe• this Righteousness upon us to be ours. Havi• already accepted it for us, he now bestows it upon us; it first was made ready, and then it is put […] So that it is not ours Inherently, but Adherently, […] Relatively, it is, in respect to us, not a personal […] a relative Righteousness; and in that regard […] resembled to a Garment, which is no part of […] man, but yet it is his, and put upon him for […] covering.
2. Hence in the act of Justification he confe• this Righteousness upon us to be ours. Havi• already accepted it for us, he now bestows it upo• us; it first was made ready, and then it is put 〈…〉 So that it is not ours Inherently, but Adherently, 〈…〉 Relatively, it is, in respect to us, not a personal 〈…〉 a relative Righteousness; and in that regard 〈…〉 resembled to a Garment, which is no part of 〈…〉 man, but yet it is his, and put upon him for 〈…〉 covering.
3. In conferring this Righteousness upon us, […] Clothes us with it. He throws it over us, so th• we who were before naked, are now arrayed w• it, so that all our defects and deformities are • den under it: hence the Apostles expression […] being found in it, Phil. 3. 9. And it covers us […] over, so that whatever faults are in us, they […] thus put out of sight.