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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.
and hence it amounts to an infallible Demonstration. So that if the premises be true, the conclusion must needs follow. Now the Connection in the first Proposition is the strongest that can be; form it which way we will, and it abides true, and reciprocally so. Now the ground of the certainty of this Connection will be made clear in the following Conclusions.
and hence it amounts to an infallible Demonstration. So that if the premises be true, the conclusion must needs follow. Now the Connexion in the first Proposition is the strongest that can be; form it which way we will, and it abides true, and reciprocally so. Now the ground of the certainty of this Connexion will be made clear in the following Conclusions.
1. All those, and none but those that are Converted are forgiven. Conversion is the first saving gift that God bestows on any of the Children of men; this is the primary design of the Gospel Dispensations, Acts 26.18. When God comes to pursue his Eternal Purpose to any one, he then Converts him, Jer. 31.3. In which Conversion he gives men Faith and Repentance, and then a Pardon; Acts 5.31. It is in Conversion that a quickening ⟨p. 116⟩principle is put into men, and before that they are Dead, Eph. 2.1. Dead legally, and dead spiritually: but as soon as that comes in, they are now Alive to God; unto which life this pardon doth appertain; and as this privilege is entailed on Conversion, so it is restrained to it, and no impenitent Sinne•s partake in it, they are in a state of Condemnation, Mat 18.3. Job. 3.36.