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

1. Let us use them to encourage our hope in God for his mercy, whatsoever our sins have been. Doth the Guilt of Sin oppress us? have we fallen by our iniquity, and are conscious of our danger, and the Divine anger we lie open to? and do our hearts condemn us, and Satan urge us to despair of pardon? Let us now make use of these Examples, to excite our hope. And to that end.

1. Let us use them to encourage our hope in God for his mercy, whatsoever our sins have been. Doth the Guilt of Sin oppress us? have we fallen by our iniquity, and are conscious of our danger, and the Divine anger we ly open to? and do our hearts condemn us, and Satan urge us to despair of pardon? Let us now make use of these Examples, to excite our hope. And to that end.

1. Learn by them to have good thoughts of God. We are apt to think hardly of him, when his Arrows stick in our sides, and his terrors make us afraid: look upon these, and see what a God he hath been to such as we are, and let that persuade us that there is forgiveness with him; that he is not an inexorable God, these have found him propitious, and so may we. We shall never come kindly to ⟨p. 286⟩him for pardon, till we can say of him, as they o• the Kings of Israel, 1 King. 20. 31.

1. Learn by them to have good thoughts of God. We are apt to think hardly of him, when his Arrows stick in our sides, and his terrours make us afraid: look upon these, and see what a God he hath been to such as we are, and let that perswade us that there is forgiveness with him; that he is not an inexorable God, these have found him propitious, and so may we. We shall never come kindly to ⟨p. 286⟩him for pardon, till we can say of him, as they o the Kings of Israel,