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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 › Doctrine 1: Examples of Pardoned Sinners, our Encouragement DOCTRINE I.
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.
1. It tells us how they had Sinned. Not that God delights to be raking in the kennel of his Children's follies, when he hath cast their iniquities into the depth of the sea, but to set the examples of his Grace before others; for mans sin is the foil of Gods Grace; and the more black that hath been, the more orient do the colours of this appear to be; their sin therefore is declared in its aggravations: so Davids, 2 Sam. 11. & 12.
1. It tells us how they had Sinned. Not that God delights to be raking in the kennel of his Childrens follies, when he hath cast their iniquities into the depth of the sea, but to set the examples of his Grace before others; for mans sin is the foil of Gods Grace; and the more black that hath been, the more orient do the colours of this appear to be; their sin therefore is declared in its aggravations: so Davids, 2 Sam. 11. & 12.
2. It acquaints us with what distress they were in, after they had so Sinned. What Convictions, what compunctions they felt in them, what pain they were in by reason of their wounds and broken bones, what terrible agonies they suffered on the account, see Context, verse 3, 4. and Mat. 26. ult. and elsewhere.
2. It acquaints us with what distress they were in, after they had so Sinned. What Convictions, what compunctions they felt in them, what pain they were in by reason of their wounds and broken bones, what terrible agonies they suffered on the account, see Context, verse 3, 4. and Mat. 26. ult. and els•where.