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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.
1. They are all this while under Guilt. Their state •s not better for their pleasancy: they are prisoners of Justice, under a Sentence of Death, and in danger of being turned into Hell the next moment. It •s therefore a Spiritual frenzy that is on them, that makes them regardless of their danger.
2. They have a Conscience in them, though they stifle […]. A natural Conscience is inseparable from a Reasonable Creature; and though it be asleep for ⟨p. 140⟩the present, it may be roused, and when it is, it will do its work to purpose, and the more terribly, by how much more it hath been imposed upon: nor is it so asleep but that it keeps true records. When Guilt and Conscience meet together, there will be fearful work: and, unless men could. extinguish• Conscience, which they never can, they will not always keep them from so meeting.
2. They have a Conscience in them, though they stiffle 〈…〉. A natural Conscience is inseparable from a Reasonable Creature; and though it be asleep for ⟨p. 140⟩the present, it may be roused, and when it is, it will do its work to purpose, and the more terribly, by how much more it hath been imposed upon: nor is it so asleep but that it keeps true records. When Guilt and Conscience meet together, there will be fearful work: and, unless men could. extinguish• Conscience, which they never can, they will not always keep them from so meeting.