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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. In that they live in all wickedness secure, and without fear. Although God hath faithfully told them how it is, and given them warning what to expect at his hands, and bidden them to provide for it; they are not concerned at all about it, but rush on in sin as the horse into the battle; say as, Isa. 56. ult. And thus they pass on, till the Wrath of God falls upon, and cuts them off with a swift destruction, from which there is no deliverance. Did men believe there is a God, and that the Scriptures are his Word, it could not be so. Nay, though they see awful instances of his severity, in such as are cut off by unwonted deaths, and g••e irrecoverably, who were once their companions in sin, they do still as formerly; were not men under the entire power of an evil heart, and a cur•ed Devil, it could not be so.
2. In that they live in all wickedness secure, and without fear. Although God hath faithfully told them how it is, and given them warning what to expect at his hands, and bidden them to provide for it; they are not concerned at all about it, but rush on in sin as the horse into the battel; say as, Isa. 56. ult. And thus they pass on, till the Wrath of God falls upon, and cuts them off with a swift destruction, from which there is no deliverance. Did men believe there is a God, and that the Scriptures are his Word, it could not be so. Nay, though they see awful instances of his severity, in such as are cut off by unwonted deaths, and g••e irrecoverably, who were once their com•anions in sin, they do still as formerly; were not men under the entire power of an evil heart, and a cur•ed Devil, it could not be so.
3. How infinitely then doth it concern every one of us to try himself, to which of these companies be belongs I shall here only improve the consideration of the woeful state of the Wicked, to awaken