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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Sermon › The safety of pardoned ones in worst times. DOCTRINE.
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. Their very sins which they have repented of, and have obtained forgiveness for, may have given occasion for those public calamities. Such was Davids numbering of the people, 2 Sam. 24. begin. Israel indeed had provoked Gods anger; however this act of Davids was introductory to the fearful Plague that followed; and yet he repented before the plague came, verse 10. Nay, the Sins of Gods Children may defile a Land, and though they repent personally, yet public Guilt remains, as in the forecited Case: David therefore takes it to himself, and deprecates it from the people, in verse 17.
2. Their very sins which they have repented of, and have obtained forgiveness for, may have given occasion for those publick calamities. Such was Davids numbring of the people, 2 Sam. 24. begin. Israel indeed had provoked Gods anger; however this act of Davids was introductory to the fearful Plague that followed; and yet he repented before the plague came, verse 10. Nay, the Sins of Gods Children may defile a Land, and though they repent personally, yet publick Guilt remains, as in the forecited Case: David therefore takes it to himself, and deprecates it from the people, in verse 17.
2. In respect to the personal afflictions they meet with and those very awful, after they are forgiven. And the consistency of this with the Covenant promise ⟨p. 366⟩and fidelity may be considered: and here,