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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 › Right Confession, its nature and usefulness. DOCTRINE. › Proposition 6: PROPOSITION VI.
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7. That this Forgiveness is applied upon the plighting of the New Covenant. As to the opinion of a Justification from Eternity, or upon Christs Resurrection, the mistake of it hath been before observed: the promise of it made unto Christ, and the acquittance given to Christ for his Redeemed, was to be applied to them in the Gospel way and order. The actual Forgiving their Sins, belongeth to the work of Application; and God hath in the Gospel opened a New Covenant, in which he carrieth on the Reconciliation, so that after Christ had Reconciled God to us, we are sent to, and entreated to be Reconciled to God. 2 Cor. 5.19, 20. And there are the terms of the Covenant, according to the tenor whereof it is brought about; and therefore called a Covenant of Peace, Mal. 2.5. because upon the making it with the Soul, the Peace of God is brought into it, to which belongs this Forgiveness. And so, upon every renewal of Covenant, upon any difference that Sin hath made: this Peace is restored, upon a new application of Forgiveness.
7. That this Forgiveness is applyed upon the plighting of the New Covenant. As to the opinion of a Justification from Eternity, or upon Christs Resurrection, the mistake of it hath been before observed: the promise of it made unto Christ, and the accquittance given to Christ for his Redeemed, was to be applyed to them in the Gospel way and order. The actual Forgiving their Sins, belongeth to the work of Application; and God hath in the Gospel opened a New Covenant, in which he carrieth on the Reconciliation, so that after Christ had Reconciled God to us, we are sent to, and entreated to be Reconciled to God. 2 Cor. 5.19, 20. And there are the terms of the Covenant, according to the tenour whereof it is brought about; and therefore called a Covenant of Peace, Mal. 2.5. because upon the making it with the Soul, the Peace of God is brought into it, to which belongs this Forgiveness. And so, upon every renewal of Covenant, upon any difference that Sin hath made: this Peace is restored, upon a new application of Forgiveness.