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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.
5. If you are found among the wicked at last, you see your doom. The assertion is positive, and admits of no exceptions, but only that the man who one• ⟨p. 531⟩was wicked, be so no more; for i• •e continues so, […] is his lot from the hands of God; and what a misery will it be to please our s•lves with a deceived hope, that we are escaped the danger, and contrary to all our expectation to fa•l into all these sorrows, and be swallowed up of them in eternal perdition? and let our hopes be never so strong, yet if they be Hypocritical in the foundation of them, we see what the▪ w•ll come to, Job 8 12. Let us then see to it▪ and b•ing our selves to •he touchstone of the word, & prove our selves with greatest exactness
5. If you are found among the wicked at last, you see your doom. The assertion is positive, and admits of no exceptions, but only that the man who one• ⟨p. 531⟩was wicked, be so no more; for i• •e continues so, 〈…〉 is his lot from the hands of God; and what a mise•y will it be to please our s•lves with a deceived hope, that we are escaped the danger, and cont•a•y to all our exp•ctaion to fal into all these sorrows, and be swallowed up of them in eternal perditin? and let our hopes be never so strong, yet if they be Hypcritical in the foundation of them, we see what the wll come to,