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

USE III. For Exhortation and direction. Let it call upon all, whensoever under the sense of Guilt, to betake our selves to prayer. Do we apprehend the anger of God against us for any sin? let it put us upon our making our requests to him for the removing of it; Consider then,

1. If our sin be not forgiven us, it will undo us. Think it not of little concernment whether our sin be pardoned or no: there needs no more but the Guilt of one unpardoned sin to sink you down into the pit of endless miseries: that one will condemn you, and there will be no hopes of escaping the Wrath of God: there is a sentence of death upon every sin, which must be taken off, or you cannot escape.

2. You must pray for this if ever you obtain it. God stands on his honour in this regard: he will have Sinners to know that it is his Prerogative to forgive sin, and will have their petition offered him in order thereto; he will else look upon them as obstinate Sinners, and such as despise his mercy; and if the Sinner hath deserved to die, and hath his life offered him if he will supplicate for it, and he will not do that, he will provoke God to show him no mercy.

2. You must pray for this if ever you obtain it. God stands on his honour in this regard: he will have Sinners to know that it is his Prerogative to forgive sin, and will have their petition offered him in order thereto; he will else look upon them as obstinate Sinners, and such as despise his mercy; and if the Sinner hath deserved to dy, and hath his life offered him if he will supplicate for it, and he will not do that, he will provoke God to shew him no mercy.