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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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4. Conclude what a fearful thing it will be to be made the Subject of all these sorrows. Think your selves now to be under the impression of them; realize them thus to your selves, & say, how shall I endure the fierce anger of God? How shall I stand up under the weight of all the sorrows which the fury of God shall heap on me, when it shall •e kindled in a fire that shall not be quenched; thus •e they brought in deliberating, Isa. 33.14. Surely such reflections will put you in fear, and that fear will be serviceable to make your present state uncomfortable, and create longings in you to get from under it.
4. Conclude what a fearful thing it will be to be made the Subject of all these sorrows. Think your selves now to be under the impression of them; realize them thus to your selves, & say, how shall I endure the fierce anger of God? How shall I stand up under the weight of all the sorrows which the fury of God shall heap on me, when it shall •e kindled in a fire that shall not be quenched; thus •e they brought in deliberating, Isa. 33.14. Surely such reflections will put you in fear, and that fear will be serviceable to make your present state •ncomfortable, and create longings in you to get from under it.
5. Now enquire and hearken after a way to escape. It is Gods rich mercy that he hath declared that there is such a way, and accordingly ordered the •aw to be dispensed in the hand of a Mediator. Should Sinners only be treated with the Law, and the thundering menaces of it, it would make them desperate in their sinful courses: but because God is pleased together with showing you your present misery, to tell you of, and offer to you a salvation, and point you the way to come by it: What then is there for you to do, but enquire? Are you pri ked at the heart? Do as they did,