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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.
1 To set forth persons who are notoriously vile, that have sold themselves to sin, and live in Sins against the light of nature, rendering them scandalous to all that are civil and sober.
1 To set forth persons who are notoriously vile, that have sold themselves to sin, and live in Sins against the light of nature, rendring them scandalous to all that are civil and sober.
2. To denote all unregenerate men, that have not been Converted, how sober soever their Conversation among men may be. Hence Godly and Wicked are frequently put distributively, as dividing the whole world between them. Now, though men, by their egregious vileness, purchase a double portion of sorrows to themselves; yet the Doctrine hath a next respect to the latter, and reckons every Unregenerate man entitled to this undesirable portion: and that they, and only they are so, and how they come to be so, is now to be considered, and may be laid forth in the following Conc••sions.
2. To denote all unregenerate men, that have not been Converted, how sober soever their Conversation among men may be. Hence Godly and Wicked are frequently put distributively, as dividing the whole world between them. Now, though men, by their egregious vileness, purchase a double portion of sorrows to themselves; yet the Doctrine hath a next respect to the latter, and reckons every Unregenerate man entituled to this undesirable portion: and that they, and only they are so, and how they come to be so, is now to be considered, and may be laid forth in the following Conc••sions.