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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.
A Pardoned Man, is a Blessed Man.
DOCTRINE I.
A Pardoned Man, is a Blessed Man; That person who hath obtained at the hand of God a Remission of his sins, is possessed of true felicity; a state of forgiveness, is a state of real happiness. I might here spend some time in enquiring into the nature of Pardon; but that will •llow to be distinctly considered afterwards; •ere therefore let it be only in general observed, •at pardon properly consists in the removal of the •uilt of sin from the sinful creature. It ever supposeth guilt arising from sin, with which the man •as justly charged, and by which he was under […] Sentence of Condemnation. When this Sense is taken off, and the person is acquitted, •en he is said to be pardoned. It is therefore […] act of authority, done by one who hath pow• to apply it; and that is no other but God; •ey said the truth in Thesi, Mark 2. 7. Who can •rgive sins but God only? only their charge •as false, because Christ was God; and being ⟨p. 12⟩constituted by his Father to be Judge of all the World, he had this authority, verse 10. But th• which I here design, is only to clear up the truth of the Doctrine, by essaying to discover the great blessedness of such an one as is pardoned: only observing, that their whole blessedness doth no consist in this; it being a collection of man things together, that are requisite to the making one completely happy; but this is one of them and inseparable from the rest; and doth also communicate to the man that which is truly hap pifying.