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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 Just and Righteous This Attribute is abundantly celebrated in the Scriptures, & God stands upon the honour of it; and good reason, because he is the Judge of all the Earth. Now the Relative Justice o• God is declared in his standing by his own Laws, and performing the Sanctions of them according as men stand related to them: God therefore asserts that he will thus do, Ezek. 18.4.
1 Just and Righteous This Attribute is abundan•ly celebrated in the Scriptures, & God stands upon the honour of it; and good reason, because he is the Judge of all the Earth. Now the Relative Justice o• God is declared in his standing by his own Laws, and performing the Sanctions of them according as men stand related to them: God therefore asserts that he will thus do, Ezek. 18.4.
2. One that hates sin. It is the odious thing to him; he cannot abide it, Hab. 1 13 Indeed there is nothing he hath an indignation •or but that, & it cannot but be abominable to him, b•ing directly contrary to his Holiness, by which he is bound for his own Glory, which sin is set against, Rom 3.23. He therefore cannot endure Sinners, Psal. 5.3, 4