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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.
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, 1 Pet. 1.6, 7. Now all these things are not repugnant to, but included in the Covenant.
5. Yea he may exercise his people, after he hath forgiven them, for their tryal. 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, 1 Pet. 1.6, 7. Now all these things are not repugnant to, but included in the Covenant.
USE. I. Learn hence what impenitent sinners may expect to find at Gods hand. When Christ himself suffered, he advised to such an improvement of it, Luk. 23.31. If it be done thus in a green tree, what ⟨p. 368⟩shall be done in the dry. And see, 1 Pet. 4 17. If his Children, whom God loves with a fathers love, may be entertained with such Providences, and that although they have humbled themselves, sought mercy, and obtained pardon, hard hearted and obstinate Sinners, who will not seek God, nor fall down before him, but go on in their Transgressions, may well expect him to fall upon them in his greatest fury, and destroy them for ever from his presence. I• Sin be so odious to him, that he will testify against it in those to whom he is reconciled in Christ, they that sin with an high hand, and have no Redeemer to appear for them, must look to drink up the dregs of the Cup of his indignation: and let every Unregenerate Sinner be suitably affected with it, and be afraid of this holy God.