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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.
3. This Righteousness was provided on purpose for this end; it was prepared to cover the Guilt of Sin. As the Active Obedience of Christ was to purchase for us the inheritance, so his Passive was to satisfy Revenging Justice on our account, by Virtue whereof our Guilt comes to be hidden out of it's sight, by the casting of this over it. Jesus Christ neither Lived for himself, nor Dyed for himself. The Son of God needed no Active Obedience to Justify him, being a Person above Law; nor did Christ need a Passive Obedience to satisfy for himself, as man, being perfectly righteous: He therefore Gave himself for us, Gal. 2.20. And this was according to Divine compact, so that it is the design of it, and it was laid in for this; and thus it becomes applicable to us, and so is every way sufficient.
3. This Righteousness was provided on purpose for this end; it was prepared to cover the Guilt of Sin. As the Active Obedience of Christ was to purchase for us the inheritance, so his Passive was to satisfy Revenging Justice on our account, by Vertue whereof our Guilt comes to be hidden out of it's sight, by the casting of this over it. Jesus Christ neither Lived for himself, nor Dyed for himself. The Son of God needed no Active Obedience to Justify him, being a Person above Law; nor did Christ need a Passive Obedience to satisfy for himself, as man, being perfectly righteous: He therefore Gave himself for us, Gal. 2.20. And this was according to Divine compact, so that it is the design of it, and it was laid in for this; and thus it becomes applicable to us, and so is every way sufficient.
2. How God casts it over us to this purpose?