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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 › Gods readiness to forgive on Penitent Confession. DOCTRINE.
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. The universality of the offer, with the great number of those that are made to partake in it. The Proclamation is to all of what sort soever, that come within the call, it is unlimited, Isa. 55.1. Rev. 22.17. None are excepted but such as will debar themselves, nor any exempted, but those that have Sinned against the Holy Ghost; and they are such as have not only willingly, but spitefully rejected a Saviour, after great illumination, and open profession; and they have not been a few, but a multitude that have been made to taste and experience the efficacy of it; that have been pardoned, and all their iniquities are forgiven them; even all that have cordially accepted the offer, none excepted; and that there are no more, is because they would not, Joh. 5.40.
2. The quality of such as have been invited and accepted: this Call hath been extended,
1. To Chief Sinners. Paul is a witness for this, ⟨p. 258⟩1 Tim. 1.15. And he tells us what he had been, verse 13. And let Manasseh stand forth on this account, what a monster of Sin he was, uses 2 Chron. 33. begin. Yet he obtained mercy and pardon upon his seeking God, and humbling himself before him.