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

3. It shows us what course they took to get their Sin pardoned. In what way they gat relief, and found mercy at Gods hand: What confession they made to God, how they bemoaned themselves bitterly ⟨p. 279⟩how earnestly they besought God for mercy, with what deep Humiliation; and self loathing they prostrated themselves at the footstool of the Throne of Grace; to this serve all Davids penitential Psalms; and we have such an account of Ephraim, Jer. 31. 18, 19

3. It shews us what course they took to get their Sin pardoned. In what way they gat relief, and found mercy at Gods hand: What confession they made to God, how they bemoaned themselves bitterly ⟨p. 279⟩how earnestly they besought God for mercy, with what deep Humiliation; and self loathing they prostrated themselves at the footstool of the Throne of Grace; to this serve all Davids penitential Psalms; and we have such an account of Ephraim, Jer. 31. 18, 19

4. It particularly notes what success they found in this way. How they sped with God in thus doing; how they sought a pardon, and obtained it, so, Context, verse 5. God did not spurn them out of his presence, but when he saw these Prodigals humbling themselves, and resolving to return, he met and embraced them, Luk. 15. 20. So Paul, 1 Tim. 1. 13, 14. Manasseh, 2 Chron. 33. 12, 13. And what tenderness God expressed to Ephraim bemoaning himself,