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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.
2. That if God do thus condemn, he will proceed to Execution according to it. He will be as good as his Word, and the Condemned Sinner shall find it so to his cost. God saith as he meaneth, and will therefore do as he faith. When God had past a fearful doom upon Saul for his disobedience, we find what a Seal he clapped upon that Sentence, 1 Sam. 15.29. The strength of Israel will not lie or repent. True, there is room at present, under the Gospel, to have the Sentence reversed by a free pardon; but if this be neglected, and the person comes thus to the bar of Justice at last, he must feel the Execution.
2. That if God do thus condemn, he will proceed to Execution according to it. He will be as good as his Word, and the Condemned Sinner shall find it so to his cost. God saith as he meaneth, and will therefore do as he faith. When God had past a fearful doom upon Saul for his disobedience, we find what a Seal he clapt upon that Sentence, 1 Sam. 15.29. The strength of Israel will not ly or repent. True, there is room at present, under the Gospel, to have the Sentence reversed by a free pardon; but if this be neglected, and the person comes thus to the bar of Justice at last, he must feel the Execution.
3. The punishment of Sin is tremendous. It is a fearful thing to fall into the hands of the living God. Heb. 10.31. In this punishment God will make it known how hateful a thing to him Sin is, and he will do it by the fearfulness of it: hence these penalties are set forth in the word of God after a formidable manner. God intends in it to show his wrath, and make his power known, Rom. 9.22. These penalties are expressed as intolerable,