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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 We receive Christ himself in order to our receiving of any of his benefits. There is an order in which God communicates his favours to us: it is the person of Christ that is proposed, whom we are to receive in the New Covenant; he espouseth us to himself, Hos. 2.19. We must be in him, if we partake in any thing of his, Phil. 3.9. It his person please us not, and we cannot comply with this Relation, •n which we are to receive him in all his Offices, we can have nothing to do with, nor make any •ust claim to those privileges that go wi•h him; •f we be none of Christ's, nothing of his is ours.
2 We receive Christ himself in order to our receiving of any of his benefits. There is an order in which God communicates his favours to us: it is the person of Christ that is proposed, whom we are to receive in the New Covenant; he espouseth us to himself, Hos. 2.19. We must be in him, if we partake in any thing of his, Phil. 3.9. It his person please us not, and we cannot comply with this Relation, •n which we are to receive him in all his Offices, we can have nothing to do with, nor make any •ust claim to those priviledges that go wi•h him; •f we be none of Christ's, nothing of his is ours.
3 Christ and a•l his benefits go together. Christ is not divided; if he be any thing to us, he is all to us, 1 Cor 1 30. We receive whole Christ, and we receive him to all the ends for which he was appointed a Saviour. When God gives him, he gives all things with him,