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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. 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, Phil. 3 7, 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 ob•ain Gods favour: and this is set up against the Ri•ht•ousness of Christ; and if you have this, you have been driven out of that, and made to coun• it •irt and dung, Phil. 3 7, 8.
3 You have accepted of Christ on Gospel terms. God hath, with the offer of him, required that you remove your trust from your selves, from the world, from any other object, and trust in him alone for all Salvation, and to look no whither else for life▪ and have you thus complied? Can you say as Psal. 73.25. Whom have I in heaven but thee, &c. You have received him to be your alone Righteousness in every point of it, without any respect to any thing at all that you can do.