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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.
Be advised then,
1. To examine whether there be no sin standing o•• against you, that is not adjusted between God and you. It is now a matter of great moment: call therefore your consciences to an account, knowing that if there be any provocation which God is angry at, that hath not been particularly confessed and repented of, it doth so stand out.
2. In case there be any such, make haste to do your duty in this regard, consider what you have to do, and use no delays. And here,
1. Expect this to be the bitterness of the Cup. The trials themselves may be irksome, and enough to try all your patience in bearing them; but this will add an unknown weight to the burden; it will be the very poison of the Cup: you will find the difference to your cost, if you adventure it, and do not speedily prevent it, Psal. 76.7. To see God angry will be more dreadful than to feel the whole weight of affliction, that can be suffered in this world Yea, it may be and sometimes is so, that it will make you lose the sight of his love to you, and apprehend him as an Enemy; and what a terrible thing will that be?