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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. They that are pardoned are also Adopted; this therefore is mentioned as one great design of Christ's Redemption, Gal. 4.5. That we might receive the Adoption of Sons; hence we have them both joined together as concomitant blessings, Eph. 1.4, 5. and this is a felicity which surmounts our conception; the Apostle speaks of it as a thing out bidding all expressions, 1 Joh. 3.1. the love of God appearing in it is incomparable, and they who are entitled to, and possessed of such love, cannot but be in an happy condition; How is it possible that a Child of God should be miserable?
3. They that are pardoned are also Adopted; this therefore is mentioned as one great design of Christ's Redemption, Gal. 4.5. That we might receive the Adoption of Sons; hence we have them both joyned together as concomitant blessings, Eph. 1.4, 5. and this is a felicity which surmounts our conception; the Apostle speaks of it as a thing out bidding all expressions, 1 Joh. 3.1. the love of God appearing in it is incomparable, and they who are entituled to, and possessed of such love, cannot but be in an happy condition; How is it possible that a Child of God should be miserable?
4. They are hereupon made great heirs; this ⟨p. 19⟩is inferred from the former, Rom. 8.17. If Sons, then heirs, heirs of God; and these two are put together, as being consequent one upon the other,