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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. What difference between the Children of God, who are under the guilt of some sin not actually forgiven, and those that have in a way of true Repentance, and renewed faith, recovered their peace?
1. What difference there is between the Children of God, and ungodly men at such a time? And that it is very great will appear, if we consider;
1. Though both suffer from Gods anger, yet there is a vast difference in that anger. God may be displeased at his own Children, and in that displeasure smite them: but yet his anger at them, and that which he expresseth to ungodly men, though alike in the Providences, yet are of a divers nature in the principle whence they proceed. He treats them as enemies, but these as Children; he not only is angry at, but hates them; but though offended at these, he loves them; see the difference, Isa. 27.11. Psal. 89.32, 33. They may be thrown into the same furnace, but one as dross, to be dealt with accordingly; the other as good metal, which, though mixed with dross must be melted and separated.
1. Though both suffer from Gods anger, yet there is a vast difference in that anger. God may be displeased at his own Children, and in that displeasure smite them: but yet his anger at them, and that which he expresseth to ungodly men, though alike in the Providences, yet are of a divers nature in the principle whence they proceed. He treats them as enemies, but these as Children; he not only is angry at, but hates them; but though offended at these, he loves them; see the difference,