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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 all the Curses written in the Book of God do belong unto these: And what a fearful number of them are there recorded? the Curses are nothing else but the Commentaries that are made upon that word, Death, which is put into the threatening of the First Covenant, and are written to explain to us the meaning of it. Now this Death was declared to be the punishment of sin, and so man by Sin is exposed to it, and to all that is contained in it: God therefore tells us who they be that lay themselves open to all these Curse, Deut. 28.15. So that there is no misery that eve• befell any of the Children of men, but every ungodly man is exposed to the same, as long as he continues in his natural state: and who can count them up, they are so many? but;
1. That all the Curses written in the Book of God do belong unto these: And what a fearful number of them are there recorded? the Curses are nothing else but the Commentaries that are made upon that word, Death, which is put into the threatning of the First Covenant, and are written to explain to us the meaning of it. Now this Death was declared to be the punishment of sin, and so man by Sin is exposed to it, and to all that is contained in it: God therefore tells us who they be that lay themselves open to all these Curse, Deut. 28.15. So that there is no misery that eve• b•fel any of the Children of men, but every ungodly man is exposed to the same, as long as he continues in his natural state: and who can count them up, they are so many? but;
2. Those sorrows may be referred to three heads: And how many are there ranged under each of these? viz. Temporal, Spiritual and Eternal. If these three brigades were drawn up in order, what a formidable army would they make? But I shall only touch at them.