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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. God usually prepares his Children for this Correction by bringing them to his foot, on which forgiveness follows. This is not that they should escape the rod, but be fitted for it. A wise father first reasons with his Child, showeth him his folly, makes him to see his desert, and this puts him upon asking forgiveness; ⟨p. 367⟩and the same love that pardons his sin, makes him smart for it, because his wisdom sees it is most convenient; thus 2 Sam. 12 14, 15.
2. God usually prepares his Children for this Correction by bringing them to his foot, on which forgiveness follows. This is not that they should escape the rod, but be fitted for it. A wise father first reasons with his Child, sheweth him his folly, makes him to see his desert, and this puts him upon asking forgiveness; ⟨p. 367⟩and the same love that pardons his sin, makes him smart for it, because his wisdom sees it is most convenient; thus 2 Sam. 12 14, 15.
3. Hence God doth it for their Spiritual advantage. Heb. 12.9, 10. That sin needs, not only to be forgiven, but to be mortified in them: the furtherance of their holiness calls for this dispensation; thus they come to see more of the bitterness of their sin, and be made the more watchful against it. David on this score acknowledgeth the goodness of his affliction, and Gods faithfulness in inflicting of it, Psal. 119.71, 75.