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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. By expiating our Guilt. Christ not only suffered, but he bore our penalty in it, Isa. 53.4, 5, 6▪ He could not suffer for his own sins, because he had none, and if he suffered for us, it was by some relation to us; and that must be as our Surety and Representative. Now when Justice hath taken its satisfaction of the Surety, it cannot come upon the Principal; and that Christ did not only suffer for us, but satisfy Justice by it, is evident, Heb. 10.14▪ Rom. 8.34.
6. This whole Righteousness of Christ is reckoned to us in the New Covenant, on our believing. Though it be laid in for us upon his performing it, yet there is an order in which it comes to be applied to us, and that is according to the tenor of the New-Covenant, which is declared to be in the way of believing: hence we are said to be Justified by faith▪ Rom 5.1. And this Righteousness is said to derive to us upon believing, Chap. 3.21. And faith is suited hereto, the design of the New-Covenant being to manifest the Grace of God in our Pardon and Justification; in that it receives and adventures upon the Righteousness of Christ offered in the promise, and so acknowledgeth our Salvation to that Grace.
6. This whole Righteousness of Christ is reckoned to us in the New Covenant, on our believing. Though it be laid in for us upon his performing it, yet there is an order in which it comes to be applied to us, and that is according to the tenour of the New-Covenant, which is declared to be in the way of believing: hence we are said to be Justif•ed by faith▪ Rom 5.1. And this Righteousness is said to derive to us upon believing, Chap. 3.21. And faith is suited hereto, the design of the New-Covenant being to manifest the Grace of God in our Pardon and Justification; in that it receives and adventures upon the Righteousness of Christ offered in the promise, and so acknowledgeth our Salvation to that Grace.