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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.
2. He hath laid in enough for your pardon, whatsoever you have been. It may be the greatness of your sins terrify you, or the multitude of them, or your long continuing in them, and the many aggravations circumstancing of them, which makes you think them to outbid a pardon; but know it, that because God delighted in forgiveness, he provided for the glorifying of it, by laying it upon one ⟨p. 271⟩mighty to save: and hence, in the Satisfaction made by Christ, there is sufficient to answer all the demands of Justice, for the greatest Sins and Sinners. Such are therefore encouraged, Isa. 55.5. There can be no wrong done to the Law of God; & abundance is added to the manifestation of his grace by this: there is therefore no […] le•t for your doubting on this account: […] you may make a plea of it, Psal. 25.11.
2. He hath laid in enough for your pardon, whatsoever you have been. It may be the greatness of your sins terrifie you, or the multitude of them, or your long continuing in them, and the many aggravations circumstancing of them, which makes you think them to outbid a pardon; but know it, that because God delighted in forgiveness, he provided for the glorifying of it, by laying it upon one ⟨p. 271⟩mighty to save: and hence, in the Satisfaction made by Christ, there is sufficient to answer all the demands of Justice, for the greatest Sins and Sinners. Such are therefore encouraged, Isa. 55.5. There can be no wrong done to the Law of God; & abundance is added to the manifestation of his grace by this: there is therefore no 〈…〉 le•t for your doubting on this account: 〈…〉 you may make a plea of it, Psal. 25.11.