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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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USE II. Let it then be to direct and help us in the right improvement of such Examples, for our benefit. Let us rightly apply them, and that both for encouragement, and direction.
1. Let us use them to encourage our hope in God for his mercy, whatsoever our sins have been. Doth the Guilt of Sin oppress us? have we fallen by our iniquity, and are conscious of our danger, and the Divine anger we lie open to? and do our hearts condemn us, and Satan urge us to despair of pardon? Let us now make use of these Examples, to excite our hope. And to that end.
1. Let us use them to encourage our hope in God for his mercy, whatsoever our sins have been. Doth the Guilt of Sin oppress us? have we fallen by our iniquity, and are conscious of our danger, and the Divine anger we ly open to? and do our hearts condemn us, and Satan urge us to despair of pardon? Let us now make use of these Examples, to excite our hope. And to that end.
1. Learn by them to have good thoughts of God We are apt to think hardly of him, when his Arrows stick in our sides, and his terrors make us afraid: look upon these, and see what a God he hath been to such as we are, and let that persuade us that there is forgiveness with him; that he is not an inexorable God, these have found him propitious, and so may we. We shall never come kindly to ⟨p. 286⟩him for pardon, till we can say of him, as they of the Kings of Israel, 1 King. 20.31.
1. Learn by them to have good thoughts of God We are apt to think hardly of him, when his Arrows stick in our sides, and his terrours make us afraid: look upon these, and see what a God he hath been to such as we are, and let that perswade us that there is forgiveness with him; that he is not an inexorable God, these have found him propitious, and so may we. We shall never come kindly to