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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 they are both of them applied together in or upon our Effectual Vocation. They are contemporaries: for though Divines do allow them an order in the handling of them, and an order of nature, and accordingly give the priority to Justification; yet there is no distance of time between the one and the other, by their acknowledgement; and they are reckoned as benefits jointly flowing from our Effectual Calling; ⟨p. 110⟩and indeed it is in Regeneration, that we pa•• from death to life; there it is that we are quickened; and there is a double life that we pass to, according to the double death that past upon us: we were dead in the Law, by the Condemnation denounced on us, but now we are made to live by a pardon, in which we are Justified; and we were dead in trespasses and sins, spiritually, and now we are made to live to Holiness by a new inspiration; and if we are no sooner Sanctified than Justified, how can our Sanctification afford any matter for our Justification?
3. That they are both of them applied together in or upon our Effectual Vocation. They are contemporaries: for though Divines do allow them an order in the handling of them, and an order of nature, and accordingly give the priority to Justification; yet there is no distance of time between the one and the other, by their acknowledgment; and they are reckoned as benefits joyntly flowing from our Effectual Calling; ⟨p. 110⟩and indeed it is in Regeneration, that we pa•• from death to life; there it is that we are quickned; and there is a double life that we pass to, according to the double death that past upon us: we were dead in the Law, by the Condemnation denounced on us, but now we are made to live by a pardon, in which we are Justified; and we were dead in trespasses and sins, spiritually, and now we are made to live to Holiness by a new inspiration; and if we are no sooner Sanctified than Justified, how can our Sanctification afford any matter for our Justification?