The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

7. Their present joys are truly happifying• There is that Consolation flowing down to th• Soul from the sense and apprehension of pardon• which is ravishing; and none can tell what it i• but he that hath it: a stranger cannot intermedd• with it. There is something like it in a Condemned Malefactor, when at the place of Exec• tion, terrified and amazed at the apprehension […] instant death, a pardon is sent him, and he […] discharged; well might our Saviour preface th• happy sentence, with such an encouragement Mat. 9. 2. Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgive• 'tis joy unspeakable and full of glory; and is n• this blessedness?

7. Their present joyes are truly happifying• There is that Consolation flowing down to th• Soul from the sense and apprehension of pardon• which is ravishing; and none can tell what it i• but he that hath it: a stranger cannot intermedd• with it. There is something like it in a Condemned Malefactor, when at the place of Exec• tion, terrified and amazed at the apprehension 〈…〉 instant death, a pardon is sent him, and he 〈…〉 discharged; well might our Saviour preface th• happy sentence, with such an encouragemen• Mat. 9. 2. Be of good cheer, thy sins are forgive• 'tis joy unspeakable and full of glory; and is n this blessedness?