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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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7 Though wicked men are sometimes reprieved for the present, and enjoy much ease, and outward prosperity, yet these sorrows are their portion, and properly belong to their birthright: for,
1. As long as they remain wicked, the Curse lieth upon them. They were born under it by virtue of their being of the progeny of fallen Adam, Eph. 2.3. And no wicked man, while so, is discharged from it. If ever God pardon a Sinner, he Sanctifies him too, and then he ceaseth to be wicked: but till then, he abides in the state into which the Apostasy had dejected him.
1. As long as they remain wicked, the Curse lieth upon them. They were born under it by vertue of their being of the progeny of fallen Adam, Eph. 2.3. And no wicked man, while so, is discharged from it. If ever God pardon a Sinner, he Sanctifies him too, and then he ceaseth to be wicked: but till then, he abides in the state into which the Apostasy had dejected him.
2. Hence all the miseries contained in the Curse, must needs belong to them. A man may be an heir, who is not in full possession; and though Sinners do not for the present feel those miseries, they are nevertheless theirs, because they are adjudged to them, and the Psalmist gives a summary of their inventory, Psal. 11.6.