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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. Be sure then to get under the covert of the Righteousness of Christ by Faith; […] God doth give us this Garment, of his Grace, […] apply it to us by his Spirit, so we are to put it on by believing. When we take hold on Christ by believing, we so get under his Shadow, and his Righteousness clothes us; this then is your great business, to believe on him; so will his Righteousness become yours, and then you are clothed.
2. Be sure then to get under the covert of the Righteousness of Christ by Faith; 〈…〉 God doth give us this Garment, of his Grace, 〈…〉 apply it to us by his Spirit, so we are to put it on by believing. When we take hold on Christ by believing, we so get under his Shadow, and his Righteousness cloaths us; this then is your great business, to believe on him; so will his Righteousness become yours, and then you are cloathed.
USE III. Here is ground of Consolation to the Children of God, under the deepest sense of their own Sins: And here,
1. This should not hinder, but further your humbling sense of them though God doth not look on them, you should. Soul abasement for Sin, and mourning by reason of it, belong to ⟨p. 81⟩that Sanctification which we are all to pursue, if sin be not made vile, and abasing to us, by the apprehension of a pardon, we may question whether we do rightly apprehend it.