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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. That in Christ's satisfaction, there is a sufficiency to expiate the Guilt of all sin. Such was the virtue of this One Sacrifice, which he offered up to the Justice of God, Heb. 1•.14. hence is he said to be able to save to the uttermost, Heb. 7.25. It was not only enough for smaller trespasses, but for the Chief Sins and Sinners, ⟨p. 36⟩1 Tim. 1.15. and this will be very evident, if we consider what he did for the expiation of the Guilt of our Sins; and that was, he suffered for them, the whole punishment that was by Law due to us for them; it is full• expressed, in Isa. 53, 4, 5, 6. he underwent the whole weight of the Wrath which we should have undergone; he was made sin for us, 2 Cor. 5.21. and then let us add to consider, that he was the Son of God, a Divine Person, that suffered all this; though it was his Humane Nature that bare it, yet the person that sustained it was God, and therefore it is called his blood, Acts 20.28. and this put an infinite value and virtue into his Obedience: So that there is a stock of pardon laid in, that cannot be exhausted: all the sin of all the Sinners in the World, cannot exhaust it.
3. That in Christ's satisfaction, there is a sufficiency to expiate the Guilt of all sin. Such was the vertue of this One Sacrifice, which he offered up to the Justice of God, Heb. 1•.14. hence is he said to be able to save to the uttermost, Heb. 7.25. It was not only enough for smaller trespasses, but for the Chief Sins and Sinners,