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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. 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.
2. Of a Common person or representative, which will yet be a clearer discovery of the fulness 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 publick 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.
6. Hence this pardon of sin removes our Guilt to Christ's account, and his Righteousness to ours: this is fully expressed, in 2 Cor. 5.21. He was made sin for us, that we might be made the Righteousness of God through him; i. e. Our sin was charged on him, and his Satisfaction went for it, and his Righteousness was reckoned to us, and so became ours: and this is done by Imputation. Nor can it be in any other way; it must be ours either Relatively, or Inherently; Inherently it cannot be, neither can Christ be the real Sinner, nor can his Sufferings, which in person suffered, be suffered personally by us; but by this transaction it becometh so by Imputation.