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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. That it is consiste•• with Gods Justice, to accept of this Satisfaction on the Sinners account. True, the case is Criminal; the Sinner himself deserves to die, and if God had said he shall die, and no other for him, it had been very just: but yet it is no wrong either to his Holiness or Justice to say, I will accept of the Sufferings of Christ for the Sinner. If there were nothing more to be said for this than that God hath actually so done, this ought to be enough to stop our mouths, for the Judge of the World can do nothing but what is right. But it is acknowledged among men, that a Prince may, if he will, although he may choose whether he will take another for the offender by exchange, if he freely offers himself: however, God is not bound to the Laws which men are.
3. That it is consiste•• with Gods Justice, to accept of this Satisfaction on the Sinners account. True, the case is Criminal; the Sinner himself deserves to dy, and if God had said he shall dy, and no other for him, it had been very just: but yet it is no wrong either to his Holiness or Justice to say, I will accept of the Sufferings of Christ for the Sinner. If there were nothing more to be said for this than that God hath actually so done, this ought to be enough to stop our mouths, for the Judge of the World can do nothing but what is right. But it is acknowledged among men, that a Prince may, if he will, although he may chuse whether he will take another for the offender by exchange, if he freely offers himself: however, God is not bound to the Laws which men are.
4. That God did, by an act of Sovereignty, accept of Christ for this end. This is evident in the Revelation of the New Covenant, in which we are told that there was such a thing: and all our hopes for Salvation by that Covenant, are built on this foundation; for we are Saved by Christ, we are therefore acquainted with a Covenant of Redemption, on which the New Covenant of Grace is founded; in which God the Father indented with his Son on this account, and made him a promise in ⟨p. 92⟩