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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.
1. Jesus Christ hath purchased it; he came for that very end, and he hath accomplished it; there was more done for the making way for the pardon of sin, than in the making of the World. When Justice had condemned the Sinner to die, and there was no deliverance to be had, but by satisfaction made to it, and there was none that could make that satisfaction but a Divine Person, God spared not his own Son, but gave him for us; when there was no other offering that could expiate ⟨p. 22⟩this guilt, he delivered him for our offences, Rom. 4. ult. 2 Cor. 5.21. and he hath paid the Redemption price; and now God may be both just and justify. Here lay the necessity of Christ coming and dying, because sinners could not be saved, unless pardoned; and they could not be pardoned unless the Law were satisfied; this was the one thing that made his coming necessary; and in coming he hath done it to effect, so that he is able to save to the uttermost, Heb. 7.25.
1. Jesus Christ hath purchased it; he came for that very end, and he hath accomplished it; there was more done for the making way for the pardon of sin, than in the making of the World. When Justice had condemned the Sinner to dy, and there was no deliverance to be had, but by satisfaction made to it, and there was none that could make that satisfaction but a Divine Person, God spared not his own Son, but gave him for us; when there was no other offering that could expiate ⟨p. 22⟩this guilt, he delivered him for our offences, Rom. 4. ult. 2 Cor. 5.21. and he hath paid the Redemption price; and now God may be both just and justify. Here lay the necessity of Christ coming and dying, because sinners could not be saved, unless pardoned; and they could not be pardoned unless the Law were satisfied; this was the one thing that made his coming necessary; and in coming he hath done it to effect, so that he is able to save to the uttermost,