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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. That […] the miseries which procure sorrows to […], are the fruits of the Curse of the First Covenant. Miseries are evils, on that account they are sorrowful to the sufferer; and being evil, the Creature hath a natural averseness to suffering them. When God made man, and placed him under a Covenant obligation to do him Service, he strengthened i• with a threatening, that in case of his disobedience, evil should befall him: hence as he •elt no evil before, so he was out of danger of ever meeting any, in case he had continued in his Obedience to God. Hence all the sorrows that man […] capable of were put in one word, viz. Death, Gen. 2.17. And whatsoever hath befallen any man since the Creation, that hath been grievous to him, arose originally from hence. If the Curse had not taken place, there had no such thing •een heard of but in the threatening.
1. That 〈…〉 the miseries which procure sorrows to 〈…〉, are the f•uits of the Curse of the First Cove•ant. Miseries are evils, on that account they are sorrowful to the sufferer; and being evil, the Creature hath a natural averseness to suffering them. When God made man, and placed him under a Covenant obligation to do him Service, he strengthened i• with a threatning, that in case of his disobedience, evil should befal him: hence as he •elt no evil before, so he was out of danger of ever meeting any, in case he had continued in his Obedience to God. Hence all the sorrows that man 〈…〉 capable of were put in one word, viz. Death, Gen. 2.17. And whatsoever hath befallen any man since the Creation, that hath been grie•ous to him, arose originally from hence. If the Curse had not taken place, there had no such thing •een heard of but in the threatning.