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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.
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2. He is yet a merciful God. Though you have greatly dishonoured, and grievously provoked him by sin, yet there is mercy with him; he hath published and proclaimed this mercy of his […] the Gospel, and inviteth weary and burdened Sinners to come to him for it, Mat. 11.28. All the Messages of peace that are sent to Sinners by the Gospel, and the fair tenders therein made to them, and the patient waiting of God, with the strivings of his Spirit, are a witness to this, that there is mercy to be had from him, if it be rightly sought.
2. He is yet a merciful God. Though you have greatly dishonoured, and grievously provoked him by sin, yet there is mercy with him; he hath published and proclaimed this mercy of his 〈…〉 the Gospel, and inviteth weary and burdened Sinners to come to him for it, Mat. 11.28. All the Messages of peace that are sent to Sinners by the Gospel, and the fair tenders therein made to them, and the patient waiting of God, with the strivings of his Spirit, are a witness to this, that there is mercy to be had from him, if it be rightly sought.
3. But he expecteth that you come for this mercy with ropes on your heads. He looketh that you should give him all the signal testimony of a deep conviction that you deserve no mercy from him, but that he do Execution upon you according to the demerit of your sin; and that you lie at his foot as those that have no injustice to impute to him, if he should fall upon and destroy you; and acknowledge his mere mercy in your pardon.
3. But he expecteth that you come for this mercy with ropes on your heads. He looketh that you should give him all the signal testimony of a deep conviction that you deserve no mercy from him, but that he do Execution upon you according to the demerit of your sin; and that you ly at his foot as those that have no injustice to impute to him, if he should fall upon and destroy you; and acknowledge his meer mercy in your pardon.