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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.
3. Hereupon the Law rigorously demands its satisfaction of him; the Law is ratified by the Law-giver, and he will give it its claim, and is resolved that it shall not suffer loss in a tittle, Mat. 5.28. It saith, I find this man to be under the charge of sin, and so to be Guilty, and I demand Justice upon him: and its mouth cannot be stopped till it hath its demands answered: it is resolved it will have its pennyworths out of the person, before it hath done with him.
3. Hereupon the Law rigorously demands its satisfaction of him; the Law is ratified by the Law-giver, and he will give it its claim, and is resolved that it shall not suffer loss in a tittle, Mat. 5.28. It saith, I find this man to be under the charge of sin, and so to be Guilty, and I demand Justice upon him: and its mouth cannot be stopt till it hath its demands answered: it is resolved it will have its penniworths out of the person, before it hath done with him.
4. Hereby he is obnoxious to suffer all the penalties of the Law, in pursuit of this charge; thu• Imputation makes him a prisoner of Justice, and liable to the execution of the threatening: hence said to be in danger, Mat. 5.22. the word signifieth, one that is held in, and kept fast, as one that is imprisoned: this execution being the design of, and that in which the Imputation is to determine. Imputation claps an arrest upon the man, which will be prosecuted, till Justice hath obtained all its demands of him.
4. Hereby he is obnoxious to suffer all the penalties of the Law, in pursuit of this charge; thu• Imputation makes him a prisoner of Justice, and liable to the execution of the threatning: hence said to be in danger,