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

9. In that none ever truly sought it of him, that went away without it. Possibly he hath not presently recorded it in their Consciences, so as to give them the comfort of it; but he never spurned any away from the Throne of Grace, who in sense of their misery and unworthiness did humbly ⟨p. 261⟩supplicate him for it; they sought his mercy and found it; Christ hath declared this plumply, Joh. 6. 37 And there never was an instance of so much as one that was defeated; the greatest Prodigal, such as he, Luke 15. If he hath come to himself, gone back to his Father, confessed his sins and deservings, and cast himself upon his Sovereign Grace, hath found him so ready, that he hath met him a great way off, taken him into his arms, and given him all the Testimonies of his pardon.

9. In that none ever truly sought it of him, that went away without it. Possibly he hath not presently recorded it in their Consciences, so as to give them the comfort of it; but he never spurned any away from the Throne of Grace, who in sense of their misery and unworthiness did humbly ⟨p. 261⟩supplicate him for it; they sought his mercy and found it; Christ hath declared this plumply, Joh. 6. 37 And there never was an instance of so much as one that was defeated; the greatest Prodigal, such as he, Luke 15. If he hath come to himself, gone back to his Father, confessed his sins and deservings, and cast himself upon his Soveraign Grace, hath found him so ready, that he hath met him a great way off, taken him into his arms, and given him all the Testimonies of his pardon.