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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
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.
The Words Opened.
IN these words is the conclusion of the Psalm, or the use the Psalmist makes of the preceding discourse, by way of Exhortation. In the words observe two things.
1. The Subjects of the Exhortation, expressed in two words.
1. The Righteous: the word signifieth one that is just, whether habitually or actually; and is frequently used for one that is so in Law; he is a righteous man, whom the Law upon trial declares to be so; this title is in this regard given to every Justified person, whether he be so on account of his personal righteousness, or that of another imputed to him, for, let the man have been never so unjust in himself, yet if another's righteousness be accepted for, and imputed to him, he is just in a Law respect; and thus it is here to be taken, for it points to the same man who is described, in verse 1, 2.
1. The Righteous: the word signifieth one that is just, whether habitually or actually; and is frequently used for one that is so in Law; he is a righteous man, whom the Law upon trial declares to be so; this title is in this regard given to every Justified person, whether he be so on account of his personal righteousness, or that of another imputed to him, for, let the man have been never so unjust in himself, yet if anothers righteousness be accepted for, and imputed to him, he is just in a Law respect; and thus it is here to be taken, for it points to the same man who is described, in verse 1, 2.