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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.
3. Be persuaded how vain it is for you to go about to cover it. Who ever did so and prospered? What a madness is it to think to hide the most secret enormities from the eyes of God, who is Omniscient, and knows you a great deal more intimately and throughly then you do your selves, and can, when he will make your sin to find you out?
3. Be perswaded how vain it is for you to go about to cover it. Who ever did so and prospered? What a madness is it to think to hide the most secret enormities from the eyes of God, who is Omniscient, and knows you a great deal more intimately and throughly then you do your selves, and can, when he will make your sin to find you out?
4. Take encouragement to hope for mercy by the Gospel discovery of Christ. The great temptation to keep silence is a Spirit of fear, that urgeth us to despair of mercy; that driveth us to hide our selves as Adam did. Now God hath in the Gospel made a Proclamation of peace to Sinners, and shown them the way to pardon: think then of this, and let it melt your heart, and drive you to fall down at his feet, and make the most enlarged acknowledgement of your sins, asking his pity. This is the most kindly and genuine working of the Evangelical offers of Grace, when they work us to the deepest sense, and draw forth our most hearty Confessions unto God.
4. Take encouragement to hope for mercy by the Gospel discovery of Christ. The great temptation to keep silence is a Spirit of fear, that urgeth us to despair of mercy; that driveth us to hide our selves as Adam did. Now God hath in the Gospel made a Proclamation of peace to Sinners, and shewn them the way to pardon: think then of this, and let it melt your heart, and drive you to fall down at his feet, and make the most enlarged acknowledgment of your sins, asking his pitty. This is the most kindly and genuine working of the Evangelical offers of Grace, when they work us to the deepest sense, and draw forth our most hearty Confessions unto God.