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

1. That we be sensible how vile we have made our selves by Sin. Sin is, by Gods holy and wise O• dination, become the foil of Grace: It did not come into the world but by Divine permission and had not God had some wise and holy end in it, he had not permitted it, now this end, i• regard of his Chosen, was to take occasion by i• to exalt his Grace in their Salvation: hence the viler they have made themselves by sin, the m•• exalted is this Grace in their Salvation, Rom. 5. 20. According to the resentments that men have of s•• such will be the esteem they put upon the Grace by which it is forgiven, Luk. 7. 47. God w•• therefore make men to know, that their Sin ha• been great and horrible, that it hath run them i• arrears Ten thousand Talents to Justice, made them men of Death, and bound them over to everlasting misery, that so they may know what kindness is shown them in bestowing a pardon on them.

1. That we be sensible how vile we have made our selves by Sin. Sin is, by Gods holy and wise O• dination, become the foil of Grace: It did not come into the world but by Divine permission and had not God had some wise and holy end in it, he had not permitted it, now this end, i• regard of his Chosen, was to take occasion by i• to exalt his Grace in their Salvation: hence the viler they have made themselves by sin, the m•• exalted is this Grace in their Salvation, Rom. 5. 20. According to the resentments that men have of s•• such will be the esteem they put upon the Grace by which it is forgiven,