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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.
2. That the Word of God gives us a distinct account of divers of these. It not only mentions them to be such, but mentions the Dispensation towards them in the circumstances; for,
1. It tells us how they had Sinned. Not that God delights to be raking in the kennel of his Children's follies, when he hath cast their iniquities into the depth of the sea, but to set the examples of his Grace before others; for mans sin is the foil of Gods Grace; and the more black that hath been, the more orient do the colours of this appear to be their sin therefore is declared in its aggravations: so Davids, 2 Sam. 11. & 12.
1. It tells us how they had Sinned. Not that God delights to be raking in the kennel of his Childrens follies, when he hath cast their iniquities into the depth of the sea, but to set the examples of his Grace before others; for mans sin is the foil of Gods Grace; and the more black that hath been, the more orient do the colours of this appear to be their sin therefore is declared in its aggravations: so Davids, 2 Sam. 11. & 12.
2. It acquaints us with what distress they were in after they had so Sinned. What Convictions, what compunctions they felt in them; what pain they were in by reason of their wounds and broken bones, what terrible agonies they suffered on the account, see Context, verse 3, 4. and Mat. 26. ult. and else where.