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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 › Doctrine 2: Wicked mens Sorrows, great and innumerable. DOCTRINE II.
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. The little affliction, and great prosperity that ma•y wicked men meet with here. They see such as ⟨p. 510⟩give themselves up to all manner of lewdness and abominations, to succeed, and enjoy health, peace, grandeur, and all that is desirable, and more than heart can wish; and no notorious Judgments of God do befall them, but they spend their days in wealth, and have no bands in their death; this makes good men sometimes envious at them, Psal. 73.3. And wicked men to think that God approves of their wickedness, Psal. 50.21. And hereby they are confirmed in their evil ways, Eccl 8.11.
2. The little affliction, and great prosperity that ma•y wicked men meet with here. They see such as ⟨p. 510⟩give themselves up to all manner of leudness and abominations, to succeed, and enjoy health, peace, grandure, and all that is desirable, and more than heart can wish; and no notorious Judgments of God do befal them, but they spend their days in wealth, and have no bands in their death; this makes good men sometimes envious at them, Psal. 73.3. And wicked men to think that God approves of their wickedness, Psal. 50.21. And hereby they are confirmed in their evil ways, Eccl 8.11.
3. The great afflictions that many Godly ones are exercised withal. Though they fear God, and keep themselves clear from their sin, and walk uprightly in their lives, yet they are plagued every day, and chastened every morning, how far that good man was prejudiced by this, we may see in the conclusion he was ready to draw from it,