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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.
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5. The Lessons that we are to learn from such Examples, as these refer to two heads.
1. To nourish hope in us against despair. When upon the apprehension of our Sins, and the aggravations of them, we are ready to sink in discouragement, we should gather hope to our selves, by contemplating these, and fetching arguments of hope, and they are such as these.
1. That there have been those who were in our case, and have done well. Unparalleled cases are apt to put men to a stand, and Satan endeavours by them to dishearten us; but when we discover how others have been in all points as bad of it as we, possibly worse, and yet have obtained Mercy of God; it tells us there is hope that we may fare well; Paul therefore tells us that this was Gods design in him, 1 Tim. 1.16.
1. That there have been those who were in our case, and have done well. Unparallel'd cases are apt to put men to a stand, and Satan endeavours by them to dishearten us; but when we discover how others have been in all points as bad of it as we, possibly worse, and yet have obtained Mercy of God; it tells us there is hope that we may fare well; Paul therefore tells us that this was Gods design in him, 1 Tim. 1.16.