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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.
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.
2. Know that except God pardon you, you must needs perish. There is but this one way to escape, miss of that, and your case is hopeless; to think to make satisfaction to offended Justice by any Righteousness of your own, or find a price to buy off the Sentence any where else, is vain. It must be an act of Grace, that only can give you a discharge from the Execution of the doom past upon you; without which Justice will make its demands, and pursue you, till it hath brought you under the whole weight of Gods Wrath, which will issue in your perdition.