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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.
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, Gal. 5.22.
5. Hence it supposeth the body of Graces infused into us, which is the principle of this Uprightness. An upright heart, is an heart made right, for none of us have it by nature; and for the making of it so, there are required all the Graces of Sanctification, which are not put into us successively, but at once; they are all together called the new m•n,