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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.
USE III. Here is ground of Consolation to the Children of God, under the deepest sense of their own Sins: And here,
1. This should not hinder, but further your humbling sense of them though God doth not look on them, you should. Soul abasement for Sin, and mourning by reason of it, belong to ⟨p. 81⟩that Sanctification which we are all to pursue, if sin be not made vile, and abasing to us, by the apprehension of a pardon, we may question whether we do rightly apprehend it.
2. But yet it should comfort your hearts under this sense. Conviction of sin and Guilt joined together will raise horrors in the Conscience; whereas Conviction of sin, and apprehension of a pardon, together with making us more vile in our own eyes, will afford a support to us, and as the one humbleth us, so the other relieves us, and gives us matter of consolation; for,
2. But yet it should comfort your hearts under this sense. Conviction of sin and Guilt joyned together will raise horrors in the Conscience; whereas Conviction of sin, and apprehension of a pardon, together with making us more vile in our own eyes, will afford a support to us, and as the one humbleth us, so the other relieves us, and gives us matter of consolation; for,