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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. That Justification and Sanctification are two distinct benefits flowing to us from Christ. However vain men have confounded them, yet the Scripture speaks of them as divers privileges one from the other, so 1 Cor. 1.30. Christ indeed is made both Righteousness and Sanctification to us, but they are two things▪ and applied to us after a different manner. We are Justified relatively; we are Sanctified really; we are Justified by Imputation, we are Sanctified by Infusion; Justification is a Garment thrown over us, Sanctification is by a new principle put into us; Justification is a Change in our state, Sanctification is a Change in our nature; in the one we are made legally innocent, in the other we are made inherently holy; hence the o•e is said to be an Act, and the other is called a Work ⟨p. 109⟩by our Divines: because the one passeth upon us Declaratively; whereas the other operates in us Effectually.
1. That Justification and Sanctification are two distinct benefits flowing to us from Christ. However vain men have confounded them, yet the Scripture speaks of them as divers priviledges one from the other, so 1 Cor. 1.30. Christ indeed is made both Righteousness and Sanctification to us, but they are two things▪ and applied to us after a different manner. We are Justified relatively; we are Sanctified really; we are Justified by Imputation, we are Sanctified by Infusion; Justification is a Garment thrown over us, Sanctification is by a new principle put into us; Justification is a Change in our state, Sanctification is a Change in our nature; in the one we are made legally innocent, in the other we are made inherently holy; hence the o•e is said to be an Act, and the other is called a Work ⟨p. 109⟩by our Divines: because the one passeth upon us Declaratively; whereas the other operates in us Effectually.