The truly blessed man

1. Though men have fallen into all manner of sins, and those the most vile, yet there is forgiveness. Some men have been noted for one, some for another; but when men Sell themselves to all wickedness; Sins against the light of nature and conscience, this renders them exceeding great. When every one brings guilt insupportable along with it, what must so many do? when they have added iniquity to sin, as drunkenness to thirst, this declares men to be beyond measure vile, and fills up their indictment with a fearful company of Articles; and yet such a man ought not to despair of, but seek to God in hope for a pardon; how many sins of the first magnitude are charged upon Manasseh? 2 Chron. 33. begin. What a prodigious monster of iniquity was he grown up to be? and yet is he left as an instance of Gods pardoning grace, to give us to understand how far it can extend it self in showing mercy.

1. Though men have fallen into all manner of sins, and those the most vile, yet there is forgiveness. Some men have been noted for one, some for another; but when men Sell themselves to all wickedness; Sins against the light of nature and conscience, this renders them exceeding great. When every one brings guilt insupportable along with it, what must so many do? when they have added iniquity to sin, as drunkenness to thirst, this declares men to be beyond measure vile, and fills up their indictment with a fearful company of Articles; and yet such a man ought not to despair of, but seek to God in hope for a pardon; how many sins of the first magnitude are charged upon Manasseh? 2 Chron. 33. begin. What a prodigious monster of iniquity was he grown up to be? and yet is he left as an instance of Gods pardoning grace, to give us to understand how far it can extend it self in shewing mercy.

2. Though they have lived a long while in such sins and multiplied them; they have not only fallen into them, but made a trade of them, and pursued them to old age; it hath been the course they have followed from their youth upward; they have accustomed themselves to it; there is a vast difference between being overtaken with a Sin, and making it ones way and course; and every repeated act of a sin, inflames the reckoning, and fills up the Ephah; yea, by this means men grow more and more hardened, and so they grow worse and worse and yet when men have done their utmost on this account, God may, and sometimes doth come and turn them to himself, and bestow a complete remission upon them: and for this also Manasseh is an amazing instance; hence Gods offer is not only to such as have played the harlot once, but many a time, and have made a trade of it,