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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.
2. How God casts it over us to this purpose?
A. He doth it by applying this Righteousness to us for our Justification: which is fitly expressed by his Clothing us with it to hide our Sin out of his sight; for in this application,
A. He doth it by applying this Righteousness to us for our Justification: which is fitly exprest by his Clothing us with it to hide our Sin out of his sight; for in this application,
1. God having accepted of this Righteousness for us, looketh upon it as ours. For this reason Christ is called, The Lord our Righteousness, Jer. 23.6. And said to be made Righteousness to us, 1 Cor. •.30. And this is a result from the Everlasting ⟨p. 74⟩C•••rivance of it in the Covenant of Suretyship, i• […] the Father promised to him this reward, […] is Obedience should redound to the Justifi•••ion of many, Isa 53.11. i. e. As many as it wa• […] be applied unto.
1. God having accepted of this Righteousness for us, looketh upon it as ours. For this reason Christ is called, The Lord our Righteousness, Jer. 23.6. And said to be made Righteousness to us, 1 Cor. .30. And this is a result from the Everlasting