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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. They forsook their sins. They turned from, and renounced them utterly, Judg. 10.16. 2 Cor. 33.15.
2. Believe that if they had not thus done they had never found mercy. If they had gone on impenitently, they had not been made the instances of Gods forgiveness; and indeed the Word of God stands for this, Prov. 28.13.
3. Let us follow their steps. This is the right improvement if we would fare as they fared, let us do as they did: take them as our Copy, and write after them, mourn as they did, if we would be comforted as they were▪ Confess with them, if we would have a sealed pardon, as they had.
4 In thus following them, let us wait upon God, believingly. In this way strengthen our faith from their pattern; encourage our Souls with this; all these were as I am, and thus they did, and are now happy; I will then trust in God, and thus wait for his Salvation.