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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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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 ⟨p. 286⟩him for pardon, till we can say of him, as they of the Kings of Israel, 1 King. 20.31.
2. Hence let these Thoughts make us resolve to go to him for Pardon While we look on him in his anger, that makes us to keep out of his sight; but when we believe, that he is ready to receive poor Sinners, and pass by their Iniquities, this will encourage us to come into his presence.