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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
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.
1. There is no other way to be discharged of this burden. It is only by a pardon that it can […] done, and if you think of any other course, […] deceive your selves. As long as the Sentence is out against you, dooming you to die, and the Justice of God stands engaged to the Execution of it, your sins do and will lie upon you. It is not all your legal repentances, reformations, ••stinences from the acts of sin, that will turn to •y account; you are condemned still, except the Judgment be revoked; and what quiet or comfort can you enjoy as long as it is so? surely Sin must lie heavy, while you are in this condition
1. There is no other way to be discharged of this burden. It is only by a pardon that it can 〈…〉 done, and if you think of any other course, 〈…〉 deceive your selves. As long as the Sentence is out against you, dooming you to dy, and the Justice of God stands engaged to the Execution of it, your sins do and will ly upon you. It is not all your legal repentances, reformations, ••stinences from the acts of sin, that will turn to •y account; you are condemned still, except the Judgment be revoked; and what quiet or comfort can you enjoy as long as it is so? surely Sin must ly heavy, while you are in this condition
2. There is forgiveness with him: This is the ••ly relief against an accusing and condemning Conscience▪ Psal. 130.3, 4. How this comes to ⟨p. 60⟩be, and how wonderfully he hath laid in for it will be hereafter considered: but he hath a stock of forgiveness; he can be just, and justify,