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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.
2. That forgiveness removes his burden from the Sinner: it takes off this heavy weight from him; this is the proper and genuine effect of pardon of Sin. This will be evident in the Consideration of these things.
1. The wrath of God lying upon Sinners is that which is the great burden of Sin. It is true, Sin it self is a vile, odious, filthy thing, and that which no gracious Soul can endure, but desires to be […] of, and delivered from: but the distress that is in it, is that the Great God is offended by it, and that he is angry at the Sinner: hence the great Complaints of Gods Children themselves, is about the Lying of wrath heavy upon them, Psal. 88.7, 16.89 46.90.7, 9, 11. To have that God, whose Voice makes the hills to quake, and mountains to tremble: that God, whose fury when it burns is a fire unquenchable, to be angry at us; this is that which we cannot bear: all the rage of men and devils is nothing in comparison with that. Ezek. 22.14. Can thine heart endure? Can thine hands be strong, &c
1. The wrath of God lying upon Sinners is that which is the great burden of Sin. It is true, Sin it self is a vile, odious, filthy thing, and that which no gracious Soul can endure, but desires to be 〈…〉 of, and delivered from: but the distress that is in it, is that the Great God is offended by it, and that he is angry at the Sinner: hence the great Complaints of Gods Children themselves, is about the Lying of wrath heavy upon them, Psal. 88.7, 16.89 46.90.7, 9, 11. To have that God, whose Voice makes the hills to quake, and mountains to tremble: that God, whose fury when it burns is a fire unquenchable, to be angry at us; this is that which we cannot bear: all the rage of men and devils is nothing in comparison with that.