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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. The afflictions themselves are under a promise of a good issue. Though they are for a while molestful, and hard to bear, yet they shall work to an happy end: the Psalmist could allot on this, Psal. 73.24. And the Apostle confirms it, Heb. 12.11. The furrows are watered with affliction, but there is is a joyful harvest to be produced▪ Psal. 97.11.126.5, 6. Whereas ungodly men are under a threatening, we are told, Psal 7.11. God is angry with the wicked every day; and this anger will ⟨p. 373⟩work, till it hath brought them to a fearful •nd the Godly have light beyond their darkness; but the Wicked are led through the present obscurity to outer darkness, where instead of joy, they have wailing.
2. The afflictions themselves are under a promise of a good issue. Though they are for a while molestful, and hard to bear, yet they shall work to an happy end: the Psalmist could allot on this, Psal. 73.24. And the Apostle confirms it, Heb. 12.11. The furrows are watered with affliction, but there is is a joyful harvest to be produced▪ Psal. 97.11.126.5, 6. Whereas ungodly men are under a threatning, we are told, Psal 7.11. God is angry with the wicked every day; and this anger will ⟨p. 373⟩work, till it hath brought them to a fearful •nd the Godly have light beyond their darkness; but the Wicked are led through the present obscurity to outer darkness, where instead of joy, they have wailing.