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

4. Hence this puts us into the best posture to receive it. God will magnify his mercy in pardoning our Sin, and what posture better becomes us to take it ⟨p. 293⟩of him, than lying prostrate at his feet, resigning to his mercy, sensible of our own unworthiness, Justifying him in his severity against us, imploring him to look upon us in tender pity? and all this belongs to the very frame of a right praying to God. God is most honoured by taking us off from the ground, where we lie before him in our shame; thus is the Prodigal represented, Luk. 15. 21.

4. Hence this puts us into the best posture to receive it. God will magnify his mercy in pardoning our Sin, and what posture better becomes us to take it ⟨p. 293⟩of him, than lying prostrate at his feet, resigning to his mercy, sensible of our own unworthiness, Justifying him in his severity against us, imploring him to look upon us in tender pity? and all this belongs to the very frame of a right praying to God. God is most honoured by taking us off from the ground, where we ly before him in our shame; thus is the Prodigal represented, Luk. 15. 21.

5. Hereby we testify what an high value we have for a pardon. God expects that we place a worthy esteem on his benefits. Men that do not pray for pardon, show that they prize it not. It is a poor thing that is not worth asking: But when with earnest Supplications, and undeniable requests, we besiege the throne of Grace, and will not let God alone till we have it, we show that we account it a glorious thing: and when we obtain it, we shall be answerably affected with it; and God will so be glorified by our thanksgivings.