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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.
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?
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 poyson 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?
2 Hence seek to God in true repentance & renewed faith for the actual forgiveness of it. Be thorough in this work, confess it ingeniously, mourn for it bitterly, aggravate it particularly, beg hard for a pardon and look to the merits of Christ, and take hold on them for it; wait submissively at the footstool of the throne of grace, till he bestows it.
2 Hence seek to God in true repentance & renewed faith for the actual forgiveness of it. Be thorough in this work, confess it ingeniously, mourn for it bitterly, aggravate it particularly, beg hard for a pardon and look to the merits of Christ, and take hold on them for it; wait submissively at the footstoo of the throne of grace, till he bestows it.