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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. The present fruits of these shall be profitable for them. All the good fruits of afflictions are not reserved for Glory, but there are those which we reap here, and they are very precious, Rom. 8.28. Jer. 24.5. And if it be asked what they are, we are told, Isa 27.9. Heb. 12.10. God by them embitters sin, quickens to duty, makes us more watchful, excites our diligence in our great business; yea and brings us to Repentance, and renewed experiences of his favour and love to us: the flood wafts us to our rest. With the wicked it is otherwise; their afflictions hurt them, 2 Chron. 28.22. Isa. 8.21. Under them they add to provoke God, till at length his fury kindleth against them in a fire unquenchable.
3. The present fruits of these shall be profitable for them. All the good fruits of afflictions are not reserved for Glory, but there are those which we reap here, and they are very precious, Rom. 8.28. Jer. 24.5. And if it be askt what they are, we are told, Isa 27.9. Heb. 12.10. God by them embitters sin, quickens to duty, makes us more watchful, excites our diligence in our great business; yea and brings us to Repentance, and renewed experiences of his favour and love to us: the flood wafts us to our rest. With the wicked it is otherwise; their afflictions hurt them, 2 Chron. 28.22. Isa. 8.21. Under them they add to provoke God, till at length his fury kindleth against them in a fire unquenchable.