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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. 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, 2 Cor. 5.21. We are now, on a relative account, pure, and clear, and spotless; Justice hath nothing to lay to our charge, because we, having put on Christ the Righteous, are Righteous in him.
4. What advantage accrues to the person by having his Sins thus covered?
A. Much every way: in particular,
1. He is, in the Law account, as if he had never Sinned. For, whatever he hath been and […] the Law hath nothing to accuse him of; […] which cannot be proved, is in the Laws account a• if it were not, and that which is hidden cannot be proved: when once Sin is covered, there is none to accuse us, for if God will not, who shall? if he hath nothing to charge on us, we are safe: but he saith, I see no Iniquity in the person.