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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. Hence in the act of Justification he confers this Righteousness upon us to be ours. Having already accepted it for us, he now bestows it upon us; it first was made ready, and then it is put on▪ So that it is not ours Inherently, but Adherently, o• Relatively, it is, in respect to us, not a personal bu• a relative Righteousness; and in that regard fitly resembled to a Garment, which is no part of the man, but yet it is his, and put upon him for a covering.
3. In conferring this Righteousness upon us, he Clothes us with it. He throws it over us, so that we who were before naked, are now arrayed with it, so that all our defects and deformities are hidden under it: hence the Apostles expression of being found in it, Phil. 3.9. And it covers us all over, so that whatever faults are in us, they are thus put out of sight.
3. In conferring this Righteousness upon us, he Cloaths us with it. He throws it over us, so that we who were before naked, are now arrayed with it, so that all our defects and deformities are hidden under it: hence the Apostles expression of being found in it, Phil. 3.9. And it covers us all over, so that whatever faults are in us, they are thus put out of sight.
4. Hereupon he judgeth of us by and according to this Righteousness. He looks no farther, as a Judge than to this: by it therefore we are made the Righteousness of God,