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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 he is out of the danger of Condemnation. Rom 8.1, 34. Condemnation is properly a Sentence past by the Judge, upon a person Convicted to be Guilty, dooming him to suffer penalty according to the mind of the Law: So that where there is no Guilt, there can be no Condemnation; and where there is no Transgression chargeable, there can be no Guilt found.
2. Hence he is out of the danger of Condemnation. Rom 8.1, 34. Condemnation is properly a Sentence past by the Judge, upon a person Convicted to be Guilty, dooming him to suffer penalty according to the mind of the Law: So that where there is no Guilt, there can be no Condemnation; and where there is no Transgression chargable, there can be no Guilt found.
3. Hence flows great Peace of Conscience. It is the foundation on which our deliverance from the terrors of an accusing Conscience is built: when that tells us we have thus and so Sinned, & thereby provoked God, it is hereby pacified, when it can look on all this Sin as covered. Now the Spirit of Bondage, which is rooted in every unpardoned Sinner, is remedied, Rom. 8.15. The Soul hath the ground of inward Tranquillity notwithstanding all; and hereupon he can, with the more humbling sense, mourn for his Sin, whiles he can mourn as one that hath a good hope, and is not sunk in despondency.
3. Hence flows great Peace of Conscience. It is the foundation on which our deliverance from the terrours of an accusing Conscience is built: when that tells us we have thus and so Sinned, & thereby provoked God, it is hereby pacified, when it can look on all this Sin as covered. Now the Spirit of Bondage, which is rooted in every unpardoned Sinner, is remedied, Rom. 8.15. The Soul hath the ground of inward Tranquillity notwithstanding all; and hereupon he can, with the more humbling sense, mourn for his Sin, whiles he can mourn as one that hath a good hope, and is not sunk in despondency.