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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.
Nor indeed are the […] Justified as Elected, but when the New Cove•••• is ratified with them; nor can they kn•w their Election till they can discern their Justification; it therefore concerns every one to be inquisitive after this; and because it is not made known by Immediate Revelation, but by concomitant Effects, enquiry is to be made after them; and therefore we have one of them laid before us ⟨p. 101⟩in our Text and Doctrine. Here then three things may be enquired into;
Nor indeed are the 〈…〉 Justified as Elected, but when the New Cove•••• is ratified with them; nor can they kn•w their Election till they can discern their Justification; it therefore concerns every one to be inquisitive after this; and because it is not made known by Immediate Revelation, but by concomitan• Effects, enquiry is to be made after them; and therefore we have one of them laid before us ⟨p. 101⟩in our Text and Doctrine. Here then three things may be enquired into;
1. What is to be understood by one in whose Spirit there is no Guile?
2. Whether this have any influence into our pardon or Justification?