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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.
4. It stops the mouths of all accusers, and makes void all their charges. We have that demand of the Apostle, Rom. 8.33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? it is God that Justifieth; an unpardoned sinner is liable to the clamour of every accuser; and whensoever his Sin is charged upon him by his own Conscience, and the terrors of the Lord are set before him, he hath nothing to support himself with, but is liable to all horror and despair, being conscious of his Guilt, and the Wrath that is our against him. But it is not so with him that is pardoned: When his own heart tells him, that he hath been such a Sinner, and Satan endeavours to terrify him with the most fearful representations of Sin, and the Law, and the Wrath of God, and would fain distress him therewithal, he hath his pardon to show, Signed and Sealed by the Spirit of God: so that he can think of his sins with deepest abasement, and soul humbling thoughts, and yet not be terrified with them, 2 Cor. 7.11.
4. It stops the mouths of all accusers, and makes void all their charges. We have that demand of the Apostle, Rom. 8.33. Who shall lay any thing to the charge of Gods Elect? it is God that Justifieth; an unpardoned sinner is liable to the clamour of every accuser; and whensoever his Sin is charged upon him by his own Conscience, and the terrors of the Lord are set before him, he hath nothing to support himself with, but is liable to all horror and despair, being conscious of his Guilt, and the Wrath that is our against him. But it is not so with him that is pardoned: When his own heart tells him, that he hath been such a Sinner, and Satan endeavours to terrify him with the most fearful representations of Sin, and the Law, and the Wrath of God, and would fain distress him therewithal, he hath his pardon to shew, Signed and Sealed by the Spirit of God: so that he can think of his sins with deepest abasement, and soul humbling thoughts, and yet not be terrified with them, 2 Cor. 7.11.