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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.
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4. That there is a sort of Guilt that cleaves to the sinful actions of the Children of God. If we look on Guilt in a strict legal sense, as that which binds ⟨p. 147⟩the person over to suffer the vengeance of the Law, so there is none can befall a justified Believer, Rom. 8 1. The person is, by the justifying act put beyond this danger: God hath said, Deliver him from going to the pit, I have found a ransom; he hath imputed Christ's Righteousness to him, and it stands for him, and cannot cease so to do. But yet there is something that may befall a Justified person, that the Scripture puts such a name upon. David was such an one before he murdered Uriah, and yet prays to be cleared from Guilt, Psal. 51.14. What this is, we must further enquire, only in general observe, that it cannot respect the mans state, but his actions, and the consequents thereon in the Providence of God.
4. That there is a sort of Guilt that cleaves to the sinful actions of the Children of God. If we look on Guilt in a strict legal sense, as that which binds ⟨p. 147⟩the person over to suffer the vengeance of the Law, so there is none can befal a justified Believer, Rom. 8 1. The person is, by the justifying act put beyond this danger: God hath said, Deliver him from going to the pit, I have found a ransom; he hath imputed Christ's Righteousness to him, and it stands for him, and cannot cease so to do. But yet there is something that may befal a Justified person, that the Scripture puts such a name upon. David was such an one before he murdered Uriah, and yet prays to be cleared from Guilt, Psal. 51.14. What this is, we must further enquire, only in general observe, that it cannot respect the mans state, but his actions, and the consequents thereon in the Providence of God.