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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.
1. Of a Surety; this is expressed, Heb. 7.22 Now a Surety is one that is bound with or for another, to respond for him, in case he him•••• fails: and when it refers to cases criminal, he becomes liable to suffer for the principal offender, and upon his so suffering, the Law is satisfied, and he for whom he suffered is released; for no Law requires double satisfaction in the same case: and therefore if the Law take its satisfaction on the Surety, it exempts the offender himself; but there is yet more, viz.
1. Of a Surety; this is expressed, Heb. 7.22 Now a Surety is one that is bound with or for anothe•, to respond for him, in case he him•••• fails: and when it refers to cases criminal, he becomes liable to suffer for the principal offender, and upon his so suffering, the Law is satisfied, and he for whom he suffered is released; for no Law requires double satisfaction in the same case: and therefore if the Law take its satisfaction on the Surety, it exempts the offender himself; but there is yet more, viz.
2. Of a Common person or representative, which will yet be a clearer discovery of the fullness of the satisfaction. We therefore have a parallel ⟨p. 93⟩made between Christ and Adam, 1 Cor. 15.22. And Adam is said to be a figure of Christ, Rom. 5.14. Now Adam stood as a public person, representing his Seed; and so doth Christ represent his: hence as Adams transgression was influential to the undoing of his Seed, so Christ's satisfaction is no less to the making or repairing of his. verse 18.