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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 › Our Rejoicing should be in the Lord.Sermon › Our Rejoycing should be in the Lord.
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 hath pardoned them. This accompanies Effectual Calling, Rom. 8.30. And this hath made them of miserable, happy, Context, vers. 1, 2. The condemned Caitiff was going to Execution, and had a pardon sent him; the Sinner who was under the weight of all the Curses, is delivered from them; the prisoner of death is set at liberty, the Sentence that was past upon him is revoked, his peace is made, he shall not die but live; and shall he not triumph?
3 He hath pardoned them. This accompanies Effectual Calling, Rom. 8.30. And this hath made them of miserable, happy, Context, vers. 1, 2. The condemned Caitiff was going to Execution, and had a pardon sent him; the Sinner who was under the weight of all the Curses, is delivered from them; the prisoner of death is set at liberty, the Sentence that was past upon him is revoked, his peace is made, he shall not dy but live; and shall he not triumph?
4. He hath taken him into the number of his Children. There is a wonderful Adoption past upon him, 1 Joh 3.1.2. He that was a Child of Satan, is now a Child of the Great God, & he hath put his own name upon him; he that was one of Gods enemies, may now call him father, Jer. 3 19. And this is an honour and happiness that cannot be expressed.
5. He hath given them his Spirit. He is theirs to ⟨p. 621⟩