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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. They are but some of these sorrows that they meet withal; and indeed the least of them too. These sorrows are some of them suffered in this life; others are reserved for hereafter, which are the consummation and top of all: but Gods Children are put out of danger of them; and it is only in this life, a little while that they meet with troubles: and though they may be troubled both in body and mind, yet it is but for a season, 1 Pet. 1.6. And these under such moderations as infinite wisdom pleaseth; and let them be what they will, ⟨p. 515⟩their latter end is peace▪ Psal. 37.37. Whereas all belong to ungodly men positively.
2. And the Curse is wholly taken out of those Sorrows which they do undergo. They are indeed Crosses to them, but not Curses; God hath removed that. An affliction is a Curse, when it is a fruit of Gods mere Wrath, and derives through the threatening of the Old Covenant; but the believer is no longer under that Covenant, Rom. 6.14. Christ hath born the Curse, though he is pleased that his Redeemed shall bear the Cross. God hath taken satisfaction for the sins of all his people, of Christ their Surety, and so Revenging Justice is not at all concerned in the afflictions that Gods Children meet with in this world.
2. And the Curse is wholly taken out of those Sorrows which they do undergo. They are indeed Crosses to them, but not Curses; God hath removed that. An affliction is a Curse, when it is a fruit of Gods meer Wrath, and derives through the threatning of the Old Covenant; but the believer is no longer under that Covenant,