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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. 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⟩of God; the Sentence of Death is not reversed, & you may now expect it to be executed, and your sins to find you out.
3. Be afraid of the terrors of it. Think, what will you do when God shall fall upon you with his Judgments, and Conscience shall then reflect with horror on you, and lay all your sins open before you, and tell you that for […] things the wrath of God is upon you to destroy you. It is a solemn question that God propounds to those sinners, Isa. 10.3. What •ill you do in the day of visitation? And Ezek 22.14. Can thine heart endure?
3. Be afraid of the terrours of it. Think, what will you do when God shall fall upon you with his Judgments, and Conscience shall then reflect with horrour on you, and lay all your sins open before you, and tell you that for 〈…〉 •hings the wrath of God is upon you to destroy you. It is a solemn question that God propounds to those sinners, Isa. 10.3. What •ill you do in the day of visitation? And Ezek 22.14. Can thine heart endure?