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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
Sermon › Doctrine 2: Wicked mens Sorrows, great and innumerable. DOCTRINE II.
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. That there is a way for the most wicked Sinners to escape. God hath said in a sufficiency in Jesus Christ, so that where Sin hath abounded, Grace may more abound, Rom. 5.21. And therefore Wicked men are invited and encouraged to it, Isa. 55.7. God hath found out a ransom, a way for Sinners to escape, and reveals it in the Gospel; they may exchange their portion, and for the Curses out against them, obtain a title to the promises of the New Covenant.
1. That there is a way for the most wicked Sinners to escape. God hath said in a sufficiency in Jesus Christ, so that where Sin hath abounded, Grace may more abound, Rom. 5.21. And therefore Wicked men are invited and encouraged to it, Isa. 55.7. God hath found out a ransome, a way for Sinners to escape, and reveals it in the Gospel; they may exchange their portion, and for the Curses out against them, obtain a title to the promises of the New Covenant.
2. Hence God is in the day of his patience giving them space for this. So he saith of her, Rev 2.22. I gave her a space to repent. All that enjoy the Dispensation of the Gospel have this privilege. If ever the escape be made, it must be in this life, before Sinners go to the Grave, where when they once come, they are fixed for ever, and their condition is irreversible; but while they live they are within the reach of the grace of the New-Covenant, and the goodness and forbearance of God, are arguments to lead them to Repentance, Rom. 2.3.
2. Hence God is in the day of his patience giving them space for this. So he saith of her, Rev 2.22. I gave her a space to repent. All that enjoy the Dispensation of the Gospel have this priviledge. If ever the escape be made, it must be in this life, before Sinners go to the Grave, where when they once come, they are fixed for ever, and their condition is irreversible; but while they live they are within the reach of the grace of the New-Covenant, and the goodness and forbearance of God, are arguments to lead them to Repentance,