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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.
Consider;
1. You are in the hand of an Holy God. A God ⟨p. 242⟩who stands on his honour, and will have his Glory from or by all his Creatures: you must therefore voluntarily give it to him, or else he will strain for it, and so recover it upon you. Now all Sin is a falling short of his Glory, Rom. 3. 23. It is a dishonouring of him: and no little of his Holiness is displayed in his showing his hatred of it; Hab. 1. 13. And you have no other way to glorify this Holiness, but by a free and full Confession.
1. You are in the hand of an Holy God. A God ⟨p. 242⟩who stands on his honour, and will have his Glory from or by all his Creatures: you must therefore voluntarily give it to him, or else he will strain for it, and so recover it upon you. Now all Sin is a falling short of his Glory, Rom. 3. 23. It is a dishonouring of him: and no little of his Holiness is displayed in his shewing his hatred of it; Hab. 1. 13. And you have no other way to glorifie this Holiness, but by a free and full Confession.
2. He is yet a merciful God. Though you have greatly dishonoured, and grievously provoked him by sin, yet there is mercy with him; he hath published and proclaimed this mercy of his l the Gospel, and inviteth weary and burdened Sinners to come to him for it,