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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. God will sooner or later bear witness to the displeasure that he taketh at Sin. If God be angry, •e will make the Creature know it; if we provoke him by Sin, we must expect to hear of him […] a way that will not be grateful to us. Anger […] God is not a passion, as it is in us, for such cannot belong to him by reason of the Infinite perfection of his nature; but it is the acting and manifestation of his will, in which he shows his displeasure at sin; and is therefore to be seen in the effects of it: the moving cause of it is sin, but the anger it self is to be read in the Efficiency of God; and that is the Testimony he beareth, in which he makes men to know that he will not bear sin at their hands, but they shall smart for it: so that though he may keep silence a while, and men grow secure upon it, and presume on impunity, yet he will not so let it pass, but find an opportunity to let men see that Sin is not pleasing but provoking to him, Psal. 50. 21, 22. For this God himself keeps a book of records, and maketh Conscience to keep the accounts, that in due season he may reckon with men, and animadvert upon them.
4. God will sooner or later bear witness to the dis••easure that he taketh at Sin. If God be angry, •e will make the Creature know it; if we pro•oke him by Sin, we must expect to hear of him 〈…〉 a way that will not be grateful to us. Anger 〈…〉 God is not a passion, as it is in us, for such cannot belong to him by reason of the Infinite perfection of his nature; but it is the acting and manifestation of his will, in which he shews his displeasure at sin; and is therefore to be seen in the effects of it: the moving cause of it is sin, but the anger it self is to be read in the Efficiency of God; and that is the Testimony he beareth, in which he makes men to know that he will not bear sin at their hands, but they shall smart for it: so that though he may keep silence a while, and men grow secure upon it, and presume on •mpunity, yet he will not so let it pass, but find an opportunity to let men see that Sin is not pleasing but provoking to him,