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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.
A. This will be seen by the following Observations.
1. A Godly man, under the guilt and defilement of some bold transgression, is thereby exposed to Gods anger. He is his father, and cannot look on him as an enemy; but a father may be displeased at a son who carries himself unworthily. We have divers instances for this in the Word of God: ⟨p. 374⟩David, 2 Sam. 11. ult. Solomon, 1 Kings 11.9. Hezekiah, 2 Chron. 32.25. Peter, Mat. 16.23. How often is the Psalmist bemoaning himself about the Wrath of God that he was sensible of? How glad is the Church when that is turned away? Isa▪ 12.1. And were they not his own of whom God saith, Isa. 57.17. For the iniquity of his Covetousness I was wroth with him. Whereas, when his Children please him by circumspect walking, or serious renewing of Repentance on any folly committed by them; he taketh great content in them.
1. A Godly man, under the guilt and defilement of some bold transgression, is thereby exposed to Gods anger. He is his father, and cannot look on him as an enemy; but a father may be displeased at a son who carries himself unworthily. We have divers instances for this in the Word of God: ⟨p. 374⟩David, 2 Sam. 11. ult. Solomon,