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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.
USE II. This Doctrine may farther be improved to quicken, encourage, and direct miserable Sinners. As we ought not to be presumptuous, so God ⟨p. 268⟩would not have us to despair, or be negligent: Hope is the incentive of endeavour; and the consideration that we have such a God to do with, may well be improved by us all to these ends.
And here,
1. Let it quicken secure and confident Sinners to seek forgiveness at Gods hand. Let this good news rouse you to ask a pardon, and not sit still. To move you, Consider;
1. Your Sin hath destroyed you. This is true concerning all men in their natural state, they are under the Curse and Condemnation, and Stand guilty before God; all the world are so, Rom. 3.19. Beware of thinking all well and safe, while the Law hath declared you men of death, and past the Sentence on you. Remember what a God you have to do with, and how fearful a thing it is to fall into his hands.