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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.
3. Be afraid of the terrors of it. Think, what will you do when God shall fall upon you with his Judgments, and Conscience shall then reflect with horror on you, and lay all your sins open before you, and tell you that for these things the wrath of God is upon you to destroy you. It is a solemn question that God propounds to those sinners, Isa. 10. 3. What will you do in the day of visitation? And Ezek. 22. 14. Can thine heart endure?
3. Be afraid of the terrours of it. Think, what will you do when God shall fall upon you with his Judgments, and Conscience shall then reflect with horrour on you, and lay all your sins open before you, and tell you that for these things the wrath of God is upon you to destroy you. It is a solemn question that God propounds to those sinners, Isa. 10. 3. What will you do in the day of visitation? And Ezek. 22. 14. Can thine heart endure?
4. Let this drive you to God for pardon. There is forgiveness with him, and you may obtain it, if you seek it aright: and he gives you warning of trouble before hand, to awaken you to seek it of him in time. God, by these warnings gives men to see their need of it, that they may seek it in good earnest, Amos 4. 12. Because I will do this, prepare to meet thy God O Israel.