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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.
9. In that none ever truly sought it of him, that went away without it. Possibly he hath not presently recorded it in their Consciences so as to give them the comfort of it; but he never spurned any away from the Throne of Grace; who in sense of their misery and unworthiness did humbly ⟨p. 261⟩supplicate him for it; they sought his mercy and found it; Christ hath declared this plumply, Job. 6.37 And there never was an instance of so much as one that was defeated; the greatest Prodigal, such as he, Luke 15. It he hath c•me to himself, gone back to his Father, confessed his sins and deservings, and cast himself upon his Sovereign Grace, hath found him so ready, that he hath met him a great […] off, taken him into his arms, and given him all the Testimonies of his pardon.
9. In that none ever truly sought it of him, that went away without it. Possibly he hath not presently recorded it in their Consciences so as to give them the comfort of it; but he never spurned any away from the Throne of Grace; who in sense of their misery and unworthiness did humbly ⟨p. 261⟩supplicate him for it; they sought his mercy and found it; Christ hath declared this plumply, Job. 6.37 And there never was an instance of so much as one that was defeated; the greatest Prodigal, such as he, Luke 15. It he hath c•me to himself, gone back to his Father, confessed his sins and deservings, and cast himself upon his Soveraign Grace, hath found him so ready, that he hath met him a great 〈…〉 off, taken him into his arms, and given him all the Testimonies of his pardon.