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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. That in Christs Sufferings there was a sufficiency to make this satisfaction. This was necessarily prerequisite, else it could not have answered the demand of the Law for us. For, though it be not therefore our Satisfaction, because there was such a sufficiency in it, Gods acceptance of it being free; yet if it could not have answered the Law in all its demands, it could not have been capable of Gods acceptance on this account: there was therefore enough in it to do this. Christ Suffered the whole Essence of the penalties that were due to us for sin; he bore the whole weight of the Wrath of God; He was made Sin, 2 Cor. 5.21. ⟨p. 91⟩And A Curse, Gal. 3.13. And the Excellency of his person, being Divine, put that Value upon his Sufferings, that rendered them equivalent to the Sufferings of all his people: it […] the blood of God that was shed, Act. 20.28.
2. That in Christs Sufferings there was a sufficiency to make this satisfaction. This was necessarily prerequisite, else it could not have answered the demand of the Law for us. For, though it be not therefore our Satisfaction, because there was such a sufficiency in it, Gods acceptance of it being free; yet if it could not have answered the Law in all its demands, it could not have been capable of Gods acceptance on this account: there was therefore enough in it to do this. Christ Suffered the whole Essence of the penalties that were due to us for sin; he bore the whole weight of the Wrath of God; He was made Sin, 2 Cor. 5.21. ⟨p. 91⟩And A Curse, Gal. 3.13. And the Excellency of his person, being Divine, put that Value upon his Sufferings, that rendered them equivalent to the Sufferings of all his people: it 〈…〉 the blood of God that was shed,