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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.
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1. Be you sensible how unprepared you are for such • storm. It is the miserable state of such, that when the flood comes, they have no Ark to fly to, and hide themselves in; no Rock to settle upon, no shelter to betake to, but lie open to the utter destruction threatened; and how will such carry it then? See, Rev. 6.16, 17. All refuges of lies will then come tumbling down, Isa. 28.17. How profitable now will such a thought well digested be?
1. Be you sensible how unprepared you are for such • storm. It is the miserable state of such, that when the flood comes, they have no Ark to fly to, and hide themselves in; no Rock to settle upon, no shelter to betake to, but ly open to the utter destruction threatned; and how will such carry it then? See, Rev. 6.16, 17. All refuges of lyes will then come tumbling down, Isa. 28.17. How profitable now will such a thought well digested be?
2. See what it is that unfits you: and that is your Guilt. It is not because you have sinned against God, so have his Children, but because the Guilt of it abides on you; were that removed, you might do well enough, this binds you over to the wrath ⟨p. 379⟩