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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.
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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, Psal. 73.13. I have cleansed my heart in vain. And how apt is the wicked world to insult over the people of God in this regard, and bitterly to upbraid them? See Psal. 42.10. And the Prophet takes notice of their insolence on this account, Jer. 30.17. And hence men are apt to conclude, that either these Sorrows are the peculiar inheritance or Gods pe• ple, or at least that they are the common lot of all men. It is therefore needful to clear this matter▪ and show in what regard they •re the proper portion of the wicked. The word, wicked is used in the Scriptures on a double account.
3. The great afflictions that many Godly ones are ex•ercised 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 chastned every morning, how far that good man was prejudiced by this, we may see in the conclusion he was ready to draw from it, Psal. 73.13. I have cleansed my heart in vain. And how apt is the wicked world to insult over the people of God in this regard, and bitterly to upbraid them? See Psal. 42.10. And the Prophet takes notice of their insolence on this account, Jer. 30.17. And hence men are apt to conclude, that either these Sorrows are the peculiar inheritance or Gods pe• ple, or at least that they are the c•mmon lot of all men. It is therefore needful to clear this matter and shew in what regard they re the proper portion of the wicked. The word, wicked is used in the Scriptures on a double account.