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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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3. Remember there is none else can speak peace to you but he. He only can bind up your wounds, and ⟨p. 247⟩set your broken bones: if he will not, none else can: and if he will let you feel the pain of it first, there is no wrong doing with him: he knoweth his own designs.
4. Be sure to hope in his Grace. Hope must nourish Patience; believe that he is a Gracious God, and hath made gracious promises, and cannot lie; and though he tarry for the present, he will come in due time; and blessed are they that wait for him.
4. Be sure to hope in his Grace. Hope must nourish Patience; believe that he is a Gracious God, and hath made gracious promises, and cannot ly; and though he tarry for the present, he will come in due time; and blessed are they that wait for him.
2. It now followeth that we consider of the success that the Psalmist found, upon his free and full confession of his Sin; thou forgavest the iniquity of my sin. Doubtless David here recommends his experience for the encouragement of others on like occasions, and the words are very emphatical: he tells us that he acknowledged, and then addeth, that he did say that he would do so, and that upon this purpose God forgave him. This seemeth to refer to, 2 Sam. 12.13. He there made a short acknowledgement, upon which the Prophet declareth his pardon: but he with this resolved on a more ample and enlarged business of it, notwithstanding the intervening forgiveness: this he accomplished and hath left upon record, in