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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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3. Let it mar your mirth in the commission of sin. It is horrible to see what mirth and pleasancy Sinners take in their lewd courses, how jocund they are when they get together, singing and drinking, and taking Gods Name in vain: but here is a thought that will spoil all, and it would be well if thus they might prevent that which is infinitely worse. Think with your selves in the midst of your Cups, and Cards, and lascivious dalliances, and debauched Songs; what makes me thus merry, who are an heir of sorrow? It is the Wise mans observation, Prov. 14.13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that laughter is heaviness, and so it is of all wicked mens carnal spo•ts. Think then, thus am I damning my own Soul, filling up the Cup of bitter wrath, that must be given me to drink ere long, if I follow such courses as these are.
3. Let it mar your mirth in the commission of sin. It is horrible to see what mirth and pleasancy Sinners take in their leud courses, how jocund they are when they get together, singing and drinking, and taking Gods Name in vain: but here is a thought that will spoil all, and it would be well if thus they might prevent that which is infinitely worse. Think with your selves in the midst of your Cups, and Cards, and lascivious dalliances, and debauched Songs; what makes me thus merry, who are an heir of sorrow? It is the Wise mans observation, Prov. 14.13 Even in laughter the heart is sorrowful; and the end of that laughter is heaviness, and so it is of all wicked mens carnal spo•ts. Think then, thus am I damning my own Soul, filling up the Cup of bitter wrath, that must be given me to drink ere long, if I follow such courses as these are.
4. Let it embitter sin to you after the commission of •t. It is none of the least infelicities of ungodly men, and that which tends to harden them in sin […] destruction, that they not only sport themselves […] sin, whiles they are committing of it, but take