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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. Have you cast your selves on free grace for it? There is a vast difference between a person being acquitted upon a payment, and upon pardon. It may be you have thought you have mourned, repented, forsaken your sins, and now you have gone in reliance upon these for pardon this is a contradiction; a pardon is a free act […] one that hath the power to give it; and if you have gotten it, you went for it, with an alone reliance on that Grace of his, which was revealed to you for your encouragement: you went without money, and without price: You have acknowledged it to be an act of Sovereignty, and accordingly have laid your selves down at the footstool of Sovereign Grace, by an humble resignation of your selves to that; and that hath been all your hope, because he is a pardoning God: you have addressed him as David, Psal. 25.11. For thy name sake, Oh Lord, pardon mine iniquity.
3. Have you cast your selves on free grace for it? There is a vast difference between a perso• being acquitted upon a payment, and upon pardon. It may be you have thought you have mourned, repented, forsaken your sins, and now you have gone in reliance upon these for pardon this is a contradiction; a pardon is a free act 〈…〉 one that hath the power to give it; and if you have gotten it, you went for it, with an alone reliance on that Grace of his, which was revealed to you for your encouragement: you went without money, and without price: You have acknowledged it to be an act of Soveraignty, and accordingly have laid your selves down at the footstool of Soveraign Grace, by an humble resignation of your selves to that; and that hath been all your hope, because he is a pardoning God: you have addressed him as David, Psal. 25.11. For thy name sake, Oh Lord, pardon mine iniquity.
USE. III. Let this serve to encourage and direct burdened Souls, that are sinking under the apprehension, and oppression of the weight of Si ing upon them, in the Guilt of it. Here is that which may help to bear up your Spirits, and point you what to do, that you may may obtain a gracious deliverance from it: and for encouragement, Consider;