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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. II. Let this put us all upon the Trial of our state, Whether we are indeed pardoned. And I know no question more solemn and weighty, that any of us hath to put to our own Soul, than this, Am I a pardoned one? are my sins forgiven? hath God blotted out my Transgressions? And, except men be dead asleep in a Lethargy of carnal security, one would think, they could not live at any rest, till they had gotten a comfortable resolution of this question; till they had a supporting hope, built upon a good foundation? Can we think of the Judgments of God to which we are exposed? Can we meditate on the day of Death which we are hastening unto, and know not how soon it will over take us? Can we have any comfortable thoughts of the day of Judgment which is hastening, where all that are found out of Christ, and so without a pardon, will be adjudged to everlasting miseries, and yet not know how we are laid in for such a day? Let us then be solicitous about this matter, and be often bringing our selves to the strictest Rules of Trial which the word of God ⟨p. 26⟩affords us, and of which we may shortly have an account. Believe it, the resolution of this case of Conscience, will make amends for all the pains that we can be at in seeking after it.
USE. II. Let this put us all upon the Trial of our state, Whether we are indeed pardoned. And I know no question more solemn and weighty, that any of us hath to put to our own Soul, than this, Am I a pardoned one? are my sins forgiven? hath God blotted out my Transgressions? And, except men be dead asleep in a Lethargy of carnal security, one would think, they could not live at any rest, till they had gotten a comfortable resolution of this question; till they had a supporting hope, built upon a good foundation? Can we think of the Judgments of God to which we are exposed? Can we meditate on the day of Death which we are hastning unto, and know not how soon it will over take us? Can we have any comfortable thoughts of the day of Judgment which is hastning, where all that are found out of Christ, and so without a pardon, will be adjudged to everlasting miseries, and yet not know how we are laid in for such a day? Let us then be sollicitous about this matter, and be often bringing our selves to the strictest Rules of Trial which the word of God ⟨p. 26⟩affords us, and of which we may shortly have an account. Believe it, the resolution of this case of Conscience, will make amends for all the pains that we can be at in seeking after it.