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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
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.
1. The resentment that impenitent Sinners have had of this Guilt, when awakened. God hath left us some instances of it, and testimonies about it in his word for our admonition. How was it with C•in when his doom was past upon him? Gen. 4.13. and whence arose that despairing conclusion of his, but from the weight of his Guilt? and how was it with Judas upon this account? Mat. 28. begin. out of doubt it was the intolerableness of the oppression of his Guilt that drave him to hang himself; and whence are these fearful expostulations of Sinners? Isa. 33.14 Who among us shall dwell, &c. and in how many doth God instance this truth, that a Conscience throughly wounded with Guilt, is a thing that cannot be born, but sinks the man under it, more than if he had a mountain lying upon him, according to Prov. 18.14. A wounded spirit who can bear?
1. The resentment that impenitent Sinners have had of this Guilt, when awakned. God hath left us some instances of it, and testimonies about it in his word for our admonition. How was it with C•in when his doom was past upon him? Gen. 4.13. and whence arose that despairing conclusion of his, but from the weight of his Guilt? and how was it with Judas upon this account? Mat. 28. begin. out of doubt it was the intollerableness of the oppression of his Guilt that drave him to hang himself; and whence are these fearful expostulations of Sinners? Isa. 33.14 Who among us shall dwell, &c. and in how many doth God instance this truth, that a Conscience throughly wounded with Guilt, is a thing that cannot be born, but sinks the man under it, more than if he had a mountain lying upon him, according to Prov. 18.14