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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
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.
2 Hence seek to God in true repentance & renewed faith for the actual forgiveness of it. Be thorough in this work, confess it ingeniously, mourn for it bitterly, aggravate it particularly, beg hard for a pardon and look to the merits of Christ, and take hol• on them for it; wait submissively at the footsto• of the throne of grace, till he bestows it.
3. Get the evidence of this forgiveness as clear […] you can. See that this very sin is pardoned: seek ⟨p. 381⟩to discover it in your selves by such fruits as are witnesses to it, and beg earnestly for the witness of his Spirit, that you may read the pardon, and see his hand and seal to it; rest not till he speak peace to and in you.
3. Get the evidence of this forgiveness as clear 〈…〉 you can. See that this very sin is pardoned: seek ⟨p. 381⟩to discover it in your selves by such fruits as are witnesses to it, and beg earnestly for the witness of his Spirit, that you may read the pardon, and see his hand and seal to it; rest not till he speak peace to and in you.
USE II. Let it be a word of Consolation to those of Gods Children, who carefully keep accounts clear between God and them. Who are very heedful to avoid every provocation, and observe if there be any, and speedily apply themselves to get it made up: although you also may meet with floods of great waters, yet here is your consolation.