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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 › Right Confession, its nature and usefulness. DOCTRINE. › Proposition 6: PROPOSITION VI.
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.
1. That we be sensible how vile we have made our selves by Sin. Sin is, by Gods holy and wise Ordination, become the foil of Grace: It did not come into the world but by Divine permission, and had not God had some wise and holy ends in it, he had not permitted it, now this end, in regard of his Chosen, was to take occasion by it to exalt his Grace in their Salvation: hence the viler they have made themselves by sin, the more ex•lted is this Grace in their Salvation, Rom. 5.20. According to the resentments that men have of sin, such will be the esteem they put upon the Grace by which it is forgiven, Luk. 7.47. God will therefore make men to know, that their Sin hath been great and horrible, that it hath run them in arrears Ten thousand Talents to Justice, made them men of Death, and bound them over to everlasting misery, that so they may know what kindness is shown them in bestowing a pardon on them.
1. That we be sensible how vile we have made our selves by Sin. Sin is, by Gods holy and wise Ordination, become the foil of Grace: It did not come into the world but by Divine permission, and had not God had some wise and holy ends in it, he had not permitted it, now this end, in regard of his Chosen, was to take occasion by it to exalt his Grace in their Salvation: hence the viler they have made themselves by sin, the more ex•lted is this Grace in their Salvation, Rom. 5.20. According to the resentments that men have of sin, such will be the esteem they put upon the Grace by which it is forgiven, Luk. 7.47. God will therefore make men to know, that their Sin hath been great and horrible, that it hath run them in arrears Ten thousand Talents to Justice, made them men of Death, and bound them over to everlasting misery, that so they may know what kindness is shewn them in bestowing a pardon on them.