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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.
2. From the bitter groans and complaints […] those who have been under the apprehension […] the guilt of Sin. How have they cried out […] oppressed, and sinking under their burden, wh• nothing else hath ailed them, but only God ha• awakened them, and charged their sins heavy up• their Consciences, with the discovery of his t• rors, or that Wrath which was out against the• for their sin? this may be exemplified in th• respects.
2. From the bitter groans and complaints 〈…〉 those who have been under the apprehension 〈…〉 the guilt of Sin. How have they cried out 〈…〉 oppressed, and sinking under their burden, wh• nothing else hath ailed them, but only God ha• awakned them, and charged their sins heavy up• their Consciences, with the discovery of his t• rors, or that Wrath which was out against the• for their sin? this may be exemplified in th• respects.
1. The resentment that impenitent Sinners have had of this Guilt, when awakened. God hath left us some instances of it, and testimonies about it in his word for our admonition. How was it with Cain when his doom was past upon him? Gen. 4. 13. and whence arose that despairing conclusion of his, but from the weight of his Guilt? and how was it with Judas upon this account?