N00802:1963
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.
1. If you are Righteous, you have cordially embraced the Righteousness of Christ, by a living Faith. It is vain to seek that Righteousness in your selves that may justify you before God; but there is such an one in Christ, and it is made over to every one that is in Gods account Righteous, and it is in regard of it's being so made over that God so accounts of him; and if it be thus with you,
1. You have been convinced of your unrighteousness. God first shows to man his transgression, makes him know himself a guilty sinner, brought under Condemnation: and till this be, Christ and his Righteousness will not be valued by us: the first Conviction is of Sin, Joh. 16.8.
1. You have been convinced of your unrighteousness. God first shews to man his transgression, makes him know himself a guilty sinner, brought under Condemnation: and till this be, Christ and his Righteousness will not be valued by us: the first Conviction is of Sin, Joh. 16.8.
2. You have rejected your own Righteousness. There is a Legal Righteousness that awakened sinners usually betake themselves unto, and seek shelter under it▪ they seek to reform their lives, leave off their sins, conform to the letter of the command, take up a strict course of living, and hope thus to obtain Gods favour: and this is set up against the Righteousness of Christ; and if you have this, you have been driven out of that, and made to count it •irt and dung,