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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. In respect of the Relation which they bear to Adams first Transgression That our first Parents became Guilty by their eating the forbidden fruit, is beyond dispute: God had a Sovereign Authority to Command, and they owed him entire Obedience: the Sin it self was great, being a Violation of the Sacrament of the Covenant, and so the whole Law was transgressed by it: and that they dyed justly none can rationally doubt. But we are given to understand that they drew their whole Posterity into the same Condemnation with ⟨p. 88⟩themselves, and this is clear from, Rom. 5.12, 17, 18, 19. Hence, though they were not actually in being, yet that Sin is imputed to them as theirs, and here upon they suffer penally for it: their being born in Sin, and unto misery is a proper resultancy from it. Verse 12. The equity of which Imputation is, in that God transacted with Adam at first as a Public Person, in whom he would have all to stand or fall: he therefore represented his whole Progeny, as a King doth his people, as a Father his Family: So that all Humanity being contracted in our first Parents, humane nature became Guilty in and with them, as it was naturally derivable from them.
3. In respect of the Relation which they bear to Adams first Transgression That our first Parents became Guilty by their eating the forbidden fruit, is beyond dispute: God had a Sovereign Authority to Command, and they owed him entire Obedience: the Sin it self was great, being a Violation of the Sacrament of the Covenant, and so the whole Law was transgressed by it: and that they dyed justly none can rationally doubt. But we are given to understand that they drew their whole Posterity into the same Condemnation with ⟨p. 88⟩themselves, and this is clear from, Rom. 5.12, 17, 18, 19. Hence, though they were not actually in being, yet that Sin is imputed to them as theirs, and here upon they suffer penally for it: their being born in Sin, and unto misery is a proper resultancy from it. Verse 12. The equity of which Imputation is, in that God transacted with Adam at first as a Publick Person, in whom he would have all to stand or fall: he therefore represented his whole Progeny, as a King doth his people, as a Father his Family: So that all Humanity being contracted in our first Parents, humane nature became Guilty in and with them, as it was naturally derivable from them.