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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.
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• 1 Joh. 5. 16. And this is that which is describe to us. Heb. 6 4, 5. Nor indeed is this Sin unp• donable, because its Guilt out-bids the value of […] Atonement, but because by it, the man puts hi• self out of the road of forgiveness, according […] the Divine Ordination, and by a malicious • nouncing of the Gospel, and the Spirit of G• in it, after great illuminations, and an high p• fession, he provokes God to give him over to ha• ness of heart, and searedness of Conscience, whe• by he is Sealed to final impenitence, there be• a total and final withdrawing of the Spirit fro• him. Concerning which, I shall only say th