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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
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.
3. Hence the whole weight of Gods Wrath will certainly fall upon them at last; they cannot escape it; if he pass the Sentence on them, he will punish them, for that is past in order to Execution. Our Saviour tells us what shall be the issue of the Sentence of the Great Day, Mat. 25. ult. and who knows the forlorn condition of that man, who must thus fall into the hands of the living God? it had been good for that man if he had never been born. Eternal Separation from the presence of Gods favour, with an endless suffering the Torments of Hell, are his portion from the hand of God; and how dreadful a thing is this?
USE II. Let it serve to awaken and encourage Sinners to seek to God for this privilege. This Doctrine will serve to both these ends, and let me urge it in both respects.
USE II. Let it serve to awaken and encourage Sinners to seek to God for this priviledge. This Doctrine will serve to both these ends, and let me urge it in both respects.
1. Consider, you are all of you by Sin become Guilty before God; all the world by nature are in this condition, Rom. 3.19. Whatever other difference the Gospel privileges have made between some and others, which are great, and are not to be despised, but prized; yet herein all are alike. There is never a Child of Adam can excuse himself from Sin; and Guilt is an inseparable concomitant of Sin, according to the Law under which you are; that hath said, Ezek 18.4. The Soul that Sins, that Soul shall die; and there is no man, whiles under the Law, that can exempt himself from it.