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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.
Nor indeed are the Elect Justified as Elected, but when the New Covenant is ratified with them; nor ca• they know their Election till they can discen• their Justification; it therefore concerns ever one to be inquisitive after this; and because it is no• made known by Immediate Revelation, but by co• comitant Effects, enquiry is to be made after them• and therefore we have one of them laid before […] ⟨p. 101⟩in our Text and Doctrine. Here then three things may be enquired into;
Nor indeed are the Elect Justified as Elected, but when the New Covenant is ratified with them; nor ca• they know their Election till they can discen• their Justification; it therefore concerns ever one to be inquisitive after this; and because it is no• made known by Immediate Revelation, but by co• comitant Effects, enquiry is to be made after them• and therefore we have one of them laid before 〈…〉 ⟨p. 101⟩in our Text and Doctrine. Here then three things may be enquired into;
1. What is to be understood by one in whose Spirit there is no Guile?