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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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6 From the Duration of them. We are wont to say, a light burden grows heavy by being long born: Now there are not only temporary, and ⟨p. 526⟩passing sorrows that belong to wicked men; but those that are the worst for their kind, are also everlasting; & that must needs put a fearful weight to them; that expression of our Saviour, Mark 9.44. The worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched; carries horror in it to those that find themselves appointed subjects of these; and when we have put all these things together, they must represent these sorrows very great.
6 From the Duration of them. We are wont to say, a light burden grows heavy by being long born: Now there are not only temporary, and ⟨p. 526⟩passing sorrows that belong to wicked men; but those that are the worst for their kind, are also everlasting; & that must needs put a fearful weight to them; that expression of our Saviour, Mark 9.44. The worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched; carries horrour in it to those that find themselves appointed subjects of these; and when we have put all these things together, they must represent these sorrows very great.
USE I. For INFORMATION in a few particulars.
1. Learn hence that wicked men have no cause to boast, nor Godly men to envy. There is too much of this in both respects, and the ground or occasion of it is this; there is a day of Gods patience towards Sinners in this world, in which his mercy moderateth the Execution of the Sentence that is past upon them, and his common Goodness and Bounty opens its hand to them, so that they are not for the present in trouble as other men, but flourish in great opulency, enjoying whatsoever they can desire, as they are described,