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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. There is yet an opportunity to obtain this. God ha•• provided this Garment, and makes offer of it to Sinners in the day of his patience and grace; and saith, if they will accept of it, he will bestow it upon, and put it on them; this is the great business of the Gospel treaty, in which God by the means, persuades with men to see their ••ed of it, and the sufficiency there is in it, that they may be willing to accept of it. Jesus Christ will have Sinner• to put him on, that their nakedness may not be seen, Rev. 3.18.
4. There is yet an opportunity to obtain this. God ha•• provided this Garment, and makes offer of it to Sinners in the day of his patience and grace; and saith, if they will accept of it, he will bestow it upon, and put it on them; this is the great business of the Gospel treaty, in which God by the means, perswades with men to see their ••ed of it, and the sufficiency there is in it, that they may be willing to accept of it. Jesus Christ will have Sinner• to put him on, that their nakedness may not be seen, Rev. 3.18.
5. When your Sin is thus covered, God can be both just and forgive you; the Righteousness of God is not baulked, but honoured in this way, 1 Joh. 1.9. you may say, how can the Justice of the Law consist with the forgiveness of my sins? it is answered, and it is enough, they are covered with the Robe of Christ's Righteousness; God hath accepted that on your score Christ, in his Humiliation was under the imputation of Sin, and Gods Justice took its satisfaction of him for you, for he was made Sin for us,