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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Sermon › Doctrine 3: Divine Teachings are to guide us in our way. DOCTRINE III.
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. There are the Covenant terms on which all his benefits are offered. These point the way how we may have a title to him, and enjoy blessedness; and if we comply not with them, notwithstanding the sufficiency of Christ, we shall not be profited by him. These are,
1. Faith in him. Pardon and peace becomes ours through the Imputation of Christ's Righteousness to us; now this is applied to us on and with our believing: hence we are said to be Justified by Faith, and that not only declaratively, but instrumentally, as by it we receive this Righteousness, and put our whole confidence in it: till when we abide under condemnation, Joh 3.15.
2. Holiness, which also we must derive from him. We are to•d, that without it there is no seeing God, H•b. 12.14 For though this doth not influence our Justification, yet it hath the things in it that accompany salvation; and consists in a sincere conformity in heart and life to the Rules of Holiness, whence proceeds a well ordered Conversation, of which, Psal. 50. ult.