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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.
GOD'S forgiveness extends to all Sin. This is implied in the threefold expression of Sin •ere used, which contain under them, not only •e errors that men are apt to fall into, but also •e crooked and perverse nature and actions which •ey are chargeable with; yea the bold, proud, and •gh handed Transgressions which they rebelliously ⟨p. 28⟩perpetrate against God. Give me leave first […] explain the Doctrine, and then to give the reason for it.
GOD'S forgiveness extends to all Sin. This is implyed in the threefold expression of Sin •ere used, which contain under them, not only •e errours that men are apt to fall into, but also •e crooked and perverse nature and actions which •ey are chargable with; yea the bold, proud, and •gh handed Transgressions which they rebelliously ⟨p. 28⟩perpetrate against God. Give me leave first 〈…〉 explain the Doctrine, and then to give the reaso• for it.
1. In the Explication we may premise, Th• there is one Sin which, in the Gospel, is exempt ed from forgiveness, and but one. It is true, […] Sin impenitently persisted in unto death, leav• the Sinner unpardoned; for there is neither Sa ing Repentance, nor forgiveness to be obtain in another World, by one that dies in his Sins: b it is not because former impenitency may not […] pardoned upon Repentance, but because the Sin hath, by persisting in it, lost the opportunity of […] day of Grace. But there is one that in it […] puts the man, in this life, out of all hope of p don, and that is called The Sin against the H Ghost, of which our Saviour so speaks. Mark […] 28, 29. This is that which is called the Sin […] Death, which puts the man out of our Praye