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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.
•. The multitude of them. They are not only •ormous, but their number is not to be reckoned •, they outdo their Arithmetic, they are innumerable; ⟨p. 338⟩and every one of them as a great mountain: and did ever so great a Sinner obtain mercy? and is not Manasseh set forth as a monument of mercy, who is scarce to be paralleled, either for magnitude or multitude of sins? 2 Chr. 33. begin. God hath multiplied pardon for such as have multiplied their transgressions, Isa. 55. 7.
•. The multitude of them. They are not only •ormous, but their number is not to be reckoned •, they outdo their Arithmetick, they are innumerable; ⟨p. 338⟩and every one of them as a great mountain: and did ever so great a Sinner obtain mercy? and is not Manasseh set forth as a monument of mercy, who is scarce to be parallel'd, either for magnitude or multitude of sins? 2 Chr. 33. begin. God hath multiplied pard•n for such as have multiplied their transgressions, Isa. 55. 7.
3. Their long living in their sins. They have long driven this trade; they began in their youth, and have followed it to their ripe and declining years; this hath been their course all along, and now they are habituated by custom, and what saith God,