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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: Guilt apprehended, Distressing to Gods Children. 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.
That the sense of Guilt is terrible to him that hath the impressions of it on his Spirit, we have already observed. That therefore which is here only to be enquired, is,
How a true Convert who is a Justified, & consequently a pardoned person, comes to be distressed with Guilt, which is removed by Forgiveness? And this is a Cas• worthy our looking into. For the right stating and explaining whereof I may offer these Conclusions.
How a true Convert who is a Justified, & consequently a pardoned person, comes to be distrest with Guilt, which is removed by Forgiveness? And this is a Cas• worthy our looking into. For the right stating and explaining whereof I may offer these Conclusions.
1. It is certain, that in the forgiveness of Sin, the whole Guilt of it is removed. A Pardon hath a proper respect unto Guilt: it makes not the […] not to have been, no• takes away the merit of it ⟨p. 145⟩but it removes the obligation of it that bound the Sinner to Die; a pardon doth not take away a part, and leave a part, but it dischargeth all; it doth not remit the fault, and retain the punishment; nor doth it abate the Eternal Punishment, and reserve the Temporal; but it altogether clears the man from the Law sentence against him; for this reason it is said to be blotted out, &c. God indeed forgives as a Judge, and corrects as a Father, but this respects not the Law, but the Gospel, and the Correction is to heal the person; it is not an act of Revenging Justice, but Parental Discipline,