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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 Let this help to wean your affections from sin▪ There is a natural delight which all ungodly men ••ke in their wicked courses: they are so eager after them, that they lose their •est for them, Prov 4.16. And there is nothing so sweet to them, as that which ⟨p. 532⟩God hath forbidden, Chap 9 16. But it is from their prodigious ignorance of the after claps of such courses, Ver. 17. It is indeed the disposition of corrupt nature to call evil good, and so pursue it with its closing Affections, but sure this is enough to take off the edge of these affections, to consider, and believe what a fearful reckoning men must come to after their pleasant morsels; what sorrows men lay in for themselves by their delightful Sins, and that in proportion to the content they take therein, Rev. 187. Is it not enough to make a man throw a cup of the most inviting drink on the ground, to consider that it is mixed with the most deadly poison? Such […] the case here, hence such a caution, Prov. 23.31, 32. Who but a mad man, will for a moments pleasure expose himself unavoidably to eternal sorrows?
1 Let this help to wean your affections from sin▪ There is a natural delight which all u•godly men ••ke in their wicked courses: they are so eager af•er them, that they lose their •est for them, Prov 4.16. And there is nothing so sweet to them, as that which ⟨p. 532⟩God hath forbidden, Chap 9 16. But it is from their prodigious ignorance of the after claps of such courses, Ver. 17. It is indeed the disposition of corrupt nature to call evil good, and so pursue it with its closing Affections, but sure this is enough to take off the edge of these affections, to consider, and believe what a fearful reckoning men must come to after their pleasant morsels; what sorrows men lay in for themselves by their delightful Sins, and that in proportion to the content they take therein, Rev. 187. Is it not enough to make a man throw a cup of the most inviting drink on the ground, to consider that it is mixed with the most deadly poyson? Such the case here, hence such a caution,