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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.
4. This Reprobate sense is a fearful Judgment of G• on profligate Sinners. Suppose they are brawn• and have out grown the sense of reflections; th• is no privilege, but indeed one of the awfuller witnesses of Gods fearful anger, Rom. 1. 18. E• 4. 19. Nor is there any thing that carrieth in it greater symptom of Reprobation.
4. This Reprobate sense is a fearful Judgment of G• on profligate Sinners. Suppose they are brawn• and have out grown the sense of reflexions; th• is no priviledge, but indeed one of the awfule• witnesses of Gods fearful anger, Rom. 1. 18. E• 4. 19. Nor is there any thing that carryeth in it greater symptom of Reprobation.
USE II. See here one reason why Convers• is called a Strait Gate. It is so, Mat. 7. 14. Th• word implieth that which distresseth a man, b• straitening and putting him to pain, and hence th• Verb of it signifieth, To Groan. The work […] Conviction is the first work of the Spirit, Joh. 16. Now the Conscience is the Subject of this Conviction, ⟨p. 141⟩