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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 There is a double respect in which a man •ay be said to be righteous in reference to Guilt, […].
2 There is a double respect in which a man •ay be said to be righteous in reference to Guilt, 〈…〉.
1. When he never was Guilty, and so he is both morally and legally righteous. He that never failed of doing what the Law requires, nor transgressed any of the precepts of it, he is no way obnoxious to any of the threatenings of the Law, nor in danger of suffering the miseries denounced in it.
1. When he never was Guilty, and so he is both morally and legally righteous. He that never failed of doing what the Law requires, nor transgressed any of the precepts of it, he is no way obnoxious to any of the threatnings of the Law, nor in danger of suffering the miseries denounced in it.
2. When the Guilt is taken off. A person that hath been Guilty▪ may become legally righteous by having his Guilt removed according to the tenor of the Law, and that is when the Law hath received full satisfaction on his account; when the penalty denounced is satisfied, the obligation […] punishment ceaseth, for the end of the Law […] thereby attained. So that if there be a way foun• for a Sinner to be discharged of his Guilt, with the fulfilling of the Law on his account, he may so be declared a righteous person after he hath been Guilty; and this is the glorious privilege discovered in the Gospel,