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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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2. Learn hence how woefully Sin and Satan impose upon men. If they were not deluded, they would never manage themselves as they do. And it herein appears.
2. Learn hence how wofully Sin and Satan impose upon men. If they were not deluded, they would never manage themselves as they do. And it herein appears.
1. In that they do upon choice prefer the ways of Sin before the ways of God; and that notwithstanding all the encouragements offered on the one hand, and all the ••lemn warnings given them on the other. They hold ⟨p. 528⟩fast wickedness, and will not part with it; and this must needs because they are persuaded to believe that lie, viz. That there is more of comfort and satisfaction to be had in a way of wickedness, than in a way of piety; so they, Jer. 44.17, 18. And so they count them their greatest enemies, who give them molestation, and would draw them from their lewd courses, and win them to God. Did men believe that there are such sorrows entailed on wickedness, they would not be so wheedled.
1. In that they do upon choice prefer the ways of Sin before the ways of God; and that notwithstanding all the encouragements offered on the one hand, and all the ••lemn warnings given them on the other. They hold ⟨p. 528⟩fast wickedness, and will not part with it; and this must needs because they are perswaded to believe that ly, viz. That there is more of comfort and satisfaction to be had in a way of wickedness, than in a way of piety; so they,