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

4. Though men have relapst into great and grievous sins after Conversion, there is forgiveness for them; there is a state of Justification, in which a person stands acquitted from Condemnation, which abides immutable; and Gods Children do not fall out of it, by any falls that they take; but there are sad falls which they are sometimes hurt by; great sins they are overtaken with, and sometimes complicated: such was Davids, to which he is supposed to have respect in •his Psalm: & it is a fearful thing for such an one so to sin; see how aggravated it was, 2 Sam. 12. 7, 8. What love is sinned against? what mercy •s despised? what obligations are broken by it? •nd yet God forgave him upon his purpose to •sk it, verse 5. and how heinously did Solomon ⟨p. 34⟩fall? and we have that Asterism on it, 1 Kin• 11 9. God had appeared to him twice; and y• God forgave him. Aaron's Calf, and Asa's Per• cution of the Prophet, are also instances for thi• and is not here enough to prove the truth, that […] is so? if the things mentioned are not in the• selves exclusive of a pardon, what can be supp• sed more likely to do it than they?

4. Though men have relapst into great and grievous sins after Conversion, there is forgiveness for them; there is a state of Justification, in which a person stands acquitted from Condemnation, which abides immutable; and Gods Children do not fall out of it, by any falls that they take; but there are sad falls which they are sometimes hurt by; great sins they are overtaken with, and sometimes complicated: such was Davids, to which he is supposed to have respect in •his Psalm: & it is a fearful thing for such an one so to sin; see how aggravated it was,