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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. There is no other way but this to have your Sin covered; you may seek to cover it out of sight by your secrecy, but you cannot so put ⟨p. 79⟩a blind upon the all seeing eve• You may endeavour to cover it with •oolish pretences and excuses, but he with whom you have to do is not so to be imposed upon; or you may think to hide it under a Repentance and Righteousness of •our own, but the Covering will be too short and too narrow; there is nothing but this Robe that can hide it out of Gods sight; Paul therefore was afraid of being found in his own righteousness, Phil. 3.9.
4. There is yet an opportunity to obtain this. God ha•• provided this Garment, and makes offer of it to Sinners in the day of his patience and grace; and saith, if they will accept of it, he will bestow it upon, and put it on them; this is the great business of the Gospel treaty, in which God by the means, persuades with men to see their ••ed of it, and the sufficiency there is in it, that they may be willing to accept of it. Jesus Christ will have Sinner• to put him on, that their nakedness may not be seen, Rev. 3.18.
4. There is yet an opportunity to obtain this. God ha•• provided this Garment, and makes offer of it to Sinners in the day of his patience and grace; and saith, if they will accept of it, he will bestow it upon, and put it on them; this is the great business of the Gospel treaty, in which God by the means, perswades with men to see their ed of it, and the sufficiency there is in it, that they may be willing to accept of it. Jesus Christ will have Sinner to put him on, that their nakedness may not be seen,