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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.
5. If God intend the man good, he will bring him to Repentance of such sins. There is but one way to forgiveness, and Repentance belongs to it, Acts 5. 3. And this not only concerns such as are not Justified in order to the Justification of their persons, but the Children of God in order to the forgiveness of such sins as they fall into after Justification: for though God will forgive them, yet he ⟨p. 168⟩will not do it in any other way but this; and indeed the Glory of God is concerned in his applying a pardon to them in this way; it is in this Repentance that he makes their sin bitter to them and so they are made to see the rich mercy that appears to them in their forgiveness. In this Repentance they are made to justify God in his righteous Judgments, and so to ascribe their pardon to his rich Grace. In this Repentance they are made to loath themselves and their sins, and are so broken off from them, and turned from sin to God, and so fitted to live to his glory: all which tends to his honour.
5. If God intend the man good, he will bring him to Repentance of such sins. There is but one way to forgiveness, and Repentance belongs to it, Acts 5. 3. And this not only concerns such as are not Justified in order to the Justification of their persons, but the Children of God in order to the forgiveness of such sins as they fall into after Justification: for though God will forgive them, yet he ⟨p. 168⟩will not do it in any other way but this; and indeed the Glory of God is concerned in his applying a pardon to them in this way; it is in this Repentance that he makes their sin bitter to them and so they are made to see the rich mercy that appears to them in their forgiveness. In this Repentance they are made to justifie God in his righteous Judgments, and so to ascribe their pardon to his rich Grace. In this Repentance they are made to loath themselves and their sins, and are so broken off from them, and turned from sin to God, and so fitted to live to his glory: all which tends to his honour.