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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. They Confessed their Sins heartily to God. They did not hide them under their Tongues; they did not excuse, or mince, or extenuate them, whiles ⟨p. 288⟩they so did they got nothing by it: but they acknowledged them Context, Vers. 5. 2 Sam. 12.11.
3. They submitted themselves to God. They took the shame of their Sins to themselves, and acknowledged that all miseries belonged to them for the same; and that God was righteous in condemning them, Psal. 51.4. Dan. 9.8. And so they yielded themselves up to God.
4. They prayed hard for a pardon. They besought God for his mercy; yielded that nothing else but mercy could do it; that God must do it for his name sake if at all, and accordingly pleaded it, Psal. 25 11.