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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.
6. An insatiable pursuit after the perfection that is before us. The sense of our imperfection puts us upon greater diligence in reaching forward. We do not sit down contented and say it is our infirmity, and we must bear it, but we have that perfection in our eye which consists in the completeness of Holiness, and total abolition of all sin: we endeavour therefore to grow in grace, by all […] means of growth, and rest not in attainments, but are still reaching till we come to that perfection which they enjoy who are now in glory, Psal. •.13, 14, 15.
6. An insatiable pursuit after the perfection that is before us. The sense of our imperfection puts us upon greater diligence in reaching forward. We do not sit down contented and say it is our inf•rmity, and we must bear it, but we have that perfection in our eye which consists in the compleatness of Holiness, and total abolition of all sin: we endeavour therefore to grow in grace, by all 〈…〉 means of growth, and rest not in attainments, but are still reaching till we come to that perfection which they enjoy who are now in glory, Psal. •.13, 14, 15.
2. Wherein this appears to be an inseparable con•••• tant of the Righteousness of Justification?
A. This truth will appear by the following Conclusions.