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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.
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, Rom. 8 32. Now Sanctification is one of the benefits which Christ hath procured for us, 1 Cor 1.30. When therefore he gives us his Righteousness for Justification, he gives also his Spirit for Sanctification, and the effect of that is this Uprightness All his Graces are pa••s of his benefits, which he applies to his Redeemed.
4 That Faith by which we receive these benefits, is […] Grace of the Spirit in us. As God gives Christ to us, so we are to receive him in order to his being ours: Now the hand by which this is done, is ⟨p. 596⟩faith ▪ Now there must be faith, in order to […] exerting this act of receiving: there must therefore be a preceding work of the Spirit in putting it into us, for it is the gift of God, Eph 2.8, 9 And faith it self is one of the fruits or Graces of the Spirit, Gal. 5.22.
4 That Faith by which we receive these benefits, is 〈…〉 Grace of the Spirit in us. As God gives Christ to us, so we are to receive him in order to his being ours: Now the hand by which this is done, is ⟨p. 596⟩faith ▪ Now there must be faith, in order to 〈…〉 exerting this act of receiving: there must therefore be a preceding work of the Spirit in putting it into us, for it is the gift of God, Eph 2.8, 9 And faith it self is one of the fruits or Graces of the Spirit,