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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 I. Let this then serve to awaken all of us to seek after this pardon. There is in all a natural desire to be happy: but alas! what unhappy courses are the most taking to obtain it? but here you are pointed to a way that will not fail, if duly attended; be then persuaded to follow this Rule; and to move you, consider.
USE I. Let this then serve to awaken all of us to seek after this pardon. There is in all a natural desire to be happy: but alas! what unhappy courses are the most taking to obtain it? but here you are pointed to a way that will not fail, if duly attended; be then perswaded to follow this Rule; and to move you, consider.
1. There is a pardon to be had; this comfortable news is brought to us in the Gospel: we are told that there is forgiveness with God, Psal. 130.4. yea it is one of the titles that he assumes to himself in the Scriptures, Exod. 34.7. Forgiving iniquity, transgression and sin; and for this is he celebrated, that he is forward to apply it, Psal. 86.5. ready to forgive; and there is full evidence for this; for,
1. Jesus Christ hath purchased it; he came for that very end, and he hath accomplished it; there was more done for the making way for the pardon of sin, than in the making of the World. When Justice had condemned the Sinner to die, and there was no deliverance to be had, but by satisfaction made to it, and there was none that could make that satisfaction but a Divine Person, God spared not his own Son, but gave him for us; when there was no other offering that could expiate