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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.
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.
4. God doth it for the vindication of the honour of his own Name. There is a reproach they often bring upon the Name of God, and the Religion they profess: the world hath been scandalized by such sins; and when God thus deals with them, mens mouths are stopped, they cannot say that he can allow any abominations in his own Children, hence that, 2 Sam. 12.14.
4. God doth it for the vindication of the honour of his own Name. There is a reproach they often bring upon the Name of God, and the Religion they profess: the world hath been scandalized by such sins; and when God thus deals with them, mens mouths are stopt, they cannot say that he can allow any abominations in his own Children, hence that, 2 Sam. 12.14.
5. Yea he may exercise his people, after he hath forgiven them, for their trial. He may exercise their Graces, and make proof of them, and so make them more fearful of sinning, and enable them to bring forth much more fruit to his praise. See,