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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. How this Imputation comes to be taken off from Sinful men?
A. In Sum, it is done by the Translation of it from the account of the Sinner, to the account of Christ. There is no other way in which it can be done consistent with the Justice of G••: and in this way it may be, and is done for all that are pardoned. Of this we may take this short account.
1. That wheresoever Sin is Imputed, the Law requires satisfaction of the person to whom it is Imputed. This is evident by the nature of imputation, according as hath been explained: for where God reckons Sin to a man, he gives the Law Credit against him for it, and makes him a Debtor to the Law; now the Law being a Rule of Justice, is rigorous, and exacts all its debts: it will not stop its mouth, till completely satisfied▪ Math. 5.18. So that it holds the man fast by virtue of this Imputation.
1. That wheresoever Sin is Imputed, the Law requires satisfaction of the person to whom it is Imputed. This is evident by the nature of imputation, according as hath been explained: for where God reckons Sin to a man, he gives the Law Credit against him for it, and makes him a Debtor to the Law; now the Law being a Rule of Justice, is rigorous, and exacts all its debts: it will not stop its mouth, till compleatly satisfyed▪ Math. 5.18. So that it holds the man fast by vertue of this Imputation.