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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. Men hereby prevent their own good. Whiles this obstinacy remains, men keep out of the way of peace; how doth God expostulate with them on this account? Isa. 48. 18. O that they had hearkened, &c. God backs his calls and counsels with gracious promises, to allure sinners after him, but they despise their own mercies.
3. Men hereby prevent their own good. Whiles this obstinacy remains, men keep out of the way of peace; how doth God expostulate with them on this account? Isa. 48. 18. O that they had hearkned, &c. God backs his calls and counsels with gracious promises, to allure sinners after him, but they despise their own mercies.
4. Hereby they expose themselves to the more miseries. Not only doth Gods wrath abide on them, but they increase their sorrows by it; this is the reason of the utter ruin of sinners under the Gospel, Matt. 23. 38. It lays them open to more intolerable punishments, and makes their damnation unavoidable, and more astonishing, Deut. 28. 59.
4. Hereby they expose themselves to the more miseries. Not only doth Gods wrath abide on them, but they encrease their sorrows by it; this is the reason of the utter ruine of sinners under the Gospel, Matt. 23. 38. It lays them open to more intolerable punishments, and makes their damnation unavoidable, and more astonishing, Deut. 28. 59.