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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.
3. God is a prayer hearing God, & therefore there is hope in this way. Thus the Psalmist pleads, Psal. ⟨p. 300⟩65. 2. Oh thou that hearest Prayer; he delighteth to hear the cries of distressed Souls, that feel their woeful misery, and have none to help them, and do therefore betake themselves to him, as a God of Salvations: He delights in mercy, and therefore hearkens if there be any miserable Sinner that will apply himself to him for it, that he may show it him. Let your sins be of what colour or magnitude soever, you need not despair; do but pray to him, and there is hope, Isa. 55. 7. He will do so for him that prays for it.
3. God is a prayer hearing God, & therefore there is hope in this way. Thus the Psalmist pleads, Psal. ⟨p. 300⟩65. 2. Oh thou that hearest Prayer; he delighteth to hear the cries of distressed Souls, that feel their woful misery, and have none to help them, and do therefore betake themselves to him, as a God of Salvations: He delights in mercy, and therefore hearkens if there be any miserable Sinner that will apply himself to him for it, that he may shew it him. Let your sins be of what colour or magnitude soever, you need not despair; do but pray to him, and there is hope, Isa. 55. 7. He will do so for him that prays for it.
4. This is the end of all the awakenings and troubles on your minds. When God comes to show us our sins in their colours, to terrify us for them, and make them a burden too heavy for us, it is to drive us to prayer; let us not then improve them to drive us from it. And would you speed?