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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
Sermon › Doctrine 2: Guilt apprehended, Distressing to Gods Children. DOCTRINE II.
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. In respect to his Person and State. The natural state of every Child of Adam, is a state of Condemnation, as he stands Guilty of the Imputation of the First Transgression, and as he is Born under the power of In dwelling Original Sin, by virtue whereof his State is a State of Guilt. Now this state is removed in Justification, in which there are two things done for the person, viz He is set free from Guilt, and Condemnation, and adjudged to Eternal Life; called a passing from death to life, 1 Joh. 3.14. The man is removed from under the Law, and put under Grace, Rom. 6.14 And by this the mans state is secured for Eternity, he is for ever out of the reach of the Law threatening.
1. In respect to his Person and State. The natural state of every Child of Adam, is a state of Condemnation, as he stands Guilty of the Imputation of the First Transgression, and as he is Born under the power of In dwelling Original Sin, by vertue whereof his State is a State of Guilt. Now this state is removed in Justification, in which there are two things done for the person, viz He is set free from Guilt, and Condemnation, and adjudged to Eternal Life; called a passing from death to life, 1 Joh. 3.14. The man is removed from under the Law, and put under Grace, Rom. 6.14 And by this the mans state is secured for Eternity, he is for ever out of the reach of the Law threatning.
2. In respect to his actions. A pardoned justified man is not presently got rid of the Body of Death, but is sometimes carried Captive by the Law in his Members: and hence he may, and sometimes doth do the things that are displeasing to God, 2 Sam. 11. ult. And this must be by sin, for nothing else can properly displease him; and there is a farther consideration to be had on account of these, which we may observe in that which follows.