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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 3: God to be sought in a finding time. DOCTRINE. III.
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2. The multitude of them. They are not only enormous, but their number is not to be reckoned up, they outdo their Arithmetic, they are innumerable; ⟨p. 338⟩and every one of them as a great mountain: and did ever so great a Sinner obtain mercy? and is not Manasseh set forth as a monument of mercy, who is scarce to be paralleled, either for magnitude or multitude of sins? 2 Cor. 33. begin. God hath multiplied pardon for such as have multiplied their transgressions, Isa. 55.7.
2. The multitude of them. They are not only enormous, but their number is not to be reckoned up, they outdo their Arithmetick, they are innumerable; ⟨p. 338⟩and every one of them as a great mountain: and did ever so great a Sinner obtain mercy? and is not Manasseh set forth as a monument of mercy, who is scarce to be parallel'd, either for magnitude or multitude of sins? 2 Cor. 33. begin. God hath multiplied pardon for such as have multiplied their transgressions, Isa. 55.7.
3. Their long living in their sins. They have long driven this trade; they began in their youth▪ and have followed it to their ripe and declining years; this hath been their course all along, and now they are habituated by custom, and what saith God, Jer. 13 23. Can the Ethiopian, &c but though by this you have rendered your Conversion and Salvation more difficult in respect of the Subject of it, yet it is not hard to Gods Omnipotency, we have the case represented.