The truly blessed man

1. Did you ever find Sin to be your great burden? I know that the Spirit of God acts diversly as to the degrees of terror which he excites in the Consciences of those whom he Converts; […] am sure that he makes sin our burden in order to his taking of it off from us; an evil and a bitter thing, Jer. 2.19. he first lays it on in Conviction, before he removes it in pardon. I speak of those that grow to years of understanding. If then you are strangers to this, and know not what it means, you have reason to think that your Guilt abides on you.

1. Did you ever find Sin to be your great burden? I know that the Spirit of God acts diversly as to the degrees of terror which he excites in the Consciences of those whom he Converts; 〈…〉 am sure that he makes sin our burden in order to his taking of it off from us; an evil and a bitter thing, Jer. 2.19. he first lays it on in Conviction, before he removes it in pardon. I speak of those that grow to years of understanding. If then you are strangers to this, and know not what it means, you have reason to think that your Guilt abides on you.

2. Have you truly gone to God for forgiveness? all other attempts are vain and unprofitable; he hath it in his disposal, and will not ⟨p. 62⟩put it out of his own hands Jesus Christ, wh• i• God is the dispe•••• of it, and the invitation is to come to him if we would obtain it. Hav• you so done? and if you have, you have relinquished all other objects of trust and confidence your former essays are no more pursued but rejected: he hath said that he will be sought to […] the house of Israel for this. Have you then hearkened to his Call? and see that you be not mistaken in this; it is not every perfunctory prayer will prove it; it is not every pretended accepting of the offered pardon, that will amount this: there is a so coming requisite. Hence,