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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.
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.
3. It shows us what course they took to get their Sin pardoned. In what way they gat relief, and found mercy at Gods hard: What confession they made to God, how they bemoaned themselves bitterly, ⟨p. 279⟩how earnestly they besought God for mercy, with what deep Humiliation, and self loathing they prostrated themselves at the footstool of the Throne of Grace; to this serve all Davids penitential Psalm• ; and we have such an account of Ephraim, Jer. 31.18, 19
3. It shews us what course they took to get their Sin pardoned. In what way they gat relief, and found mercy at Gods hard: What confession they made to God, how they bemoaned themselves bitterly, ⟨p. 279⟩how earnestly they besought God for mercy, with what deep Humiliation, and self loathing they prostrated themselves at the footstool of the Throne of Grace; to this serve all Davids penitenial Psalm ; and we have such an account of Ephraim,