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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. Your Sin hath destroyed you. This is true concerning all men in their natural state, they are under the Curse and Condemnation, and Stand guilty before God; all the world are so, Rom. 3. 19. Beware of thinking all well and safe; while the Law hath declared you men of death, and past the Sentence on you. Remember what a God you• have to do with, and how fearful a thing it is to fall into his hands.
2. Know that except God pardon you, you mu•• needs perish. There is but this one way to escape, miss of that, and your case is hopeless; to think to make satisfaction to offended Justice by any Righteousness of your own, or find a price to buy off the Sentence any where else, is vain. It must be an act of Grace, that only can give you a discharge from the Execution of the doom past upon you; without which Justice will make its demands, and pursue you, till it hath brought you under the whole weight of Gods Wrath, which will issue in your perdition.
3. There is a pardon to be had with God. This is the glad tidings that is published among a company ⟨p. 269⟩of perishing Sinners, and ought be counted ••ortby of all acceptation, 1 Tim. 1. 15. It is one Letter of his Name, a God forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin,