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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: Faith the foundation of true Obedience. 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.
2. We are also convinced that we cannot atone him to us by any Righteousness of our own. There is a fond opinion which vain men are ready to take up about themselves, as if they might satisfy God, and obtain his favour by their own works; so that when Conscience is awakened, they take up a course of legal duties, and lay out much cost and pains about them: but when God comes to bring us to the faith of the Gospel, he makes us to reject […] this, and acknowledge the raggedness & filthiness of it, Isa. 64.6. Phil. 3.8, 9. The proud sinner would make money of this, but he now sees it is but dross.
2. We are also convinced that we cannot atone him to us by any Righteousness of our own. There is a fond opinion which vain men are ready to take up about themselves, as if they might satisfy God, and obtain his favour by their own works; so that when Conscience is awakened, they take up a course of legal duties, and lay out much cost and pains about them: but when God comes to bring us to the faith of the Gospel, he makes us to reject 〈…〉 this, and acknowledge the raggedness & filthiness of it, Isa. 64.6. Phil. 3.8, 9. The proud sinner would make money of this, but he now sees it is but dross.
3. He lets us see the fullness of sufficiency in Christ, to make us partakers in this life. This fullness is originally in God, but Christ is the Mediator between God and man, and the dispensation of the fullness of God to men is put into his hand, so to be imparted to […], Col. 1 19.