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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
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.
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2. Be you sensible how unprepared you are for such a storm. It is the miserable state of such, that when the flood comes, they have no Ark to fly to, and hide themselves in; no Rock to settle upon, no shelter to betake to, but lie open to the utter destruction threatened; and how will such carry it then? See, Rev. 6. 16, 17. All refuges of lies will then come tumbling down, Isa. 28. 17. How profitable now will such a thought well digested be?
2. Be you sensible how unprepared you are for such a storm. It is the miserable state of such, that when the flood comes, they have no Ark to fly to, and hide themselves in; no Rock to settle upon, no shelter to betake to, but ly open to the utter destruction threatned; and how will such carry it then? See, Rev. 6. 16, 17. All refuges of lyes will then come tumbling down, Isa. 28. 17. How profitable now will such a thought well digested be?
A See what it is that unfits you: and that is your Gunt. It is not because you have sinned against God, so have his Children, but because the Guilt of it abides on you; were that removed, you might do well enough, this binds you over to to wrath ⟨p. 379⟩of God; the Sentence of Death is not reversed, & you may now expect it to be executed, and your sins to find you out.