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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.
3. He makes the offer of a pardon to you. He doth not only wait to see if you will come and ask it of him, but he sends to you a Message about it; he hath commanded that you should b• told about it, and pleaded with to accept of it he hath sent an Embassy to you by his Servant who are to entreat you to entertain it, 2 Cor. 20. and he is, all this day of his patience, wai• ing to see whether you will embrace it or no• and why will ye die? why will you not seek […] have your burden thus taken off, but rather chu•• to bear it, though it will overwhelm you in endless Destruction?
3. He makes the offer of a pardon to you. He doth not only wait to see if you will come and ask it of him, but he sends to you a Message about it; he hath commanded that you should b• told about it, and pleaded with to accept of it he hath sent an Embassy to you by his Servant who are to entreat you to entertain it, 2 Cor. 20. and he is, all this day of his patience, wai• ing to see whether you will embrace it or no• and why will ye dy? why will you not seek 〈…〉 have your burden thus taken off, but rather chu•• to bear it, though it will overwhelm you in endless Destruction?
USE II. Let it be for Examination. Try we by this whether the burden of our Sins be indeed removed off from us. It is a very desirable thing to be known; and there is a Rule o• judgment about it; be persuaded to be solemn in it. Hence consider;
USE II. Let it be for Examination. Try we by this whether the burden of our Sins be indeed removed off from us. It is a very desirable thing to be known; and there is a Rule o judgment about it; be perswaded to be solemn in it. Hence consider;