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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 1: The distress of a Conscience burdened with Sin. DOCTRINE. I.
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. The Consideration of the danger which by reason of Guilt, the man is every moment exposed unto: It lays the Sinner open to present Execution. There is no time prefixed in the Law, how long it shall be before the Sentence shall take place, and fall on the sinner in its whole weight. He is no sooner a Sinner, but Guilty, and no sooner Guilty but exposed, and God may, i• he please, in that instant Arraign, Judge, Condemn, and Damn him; all the Patience extended to him, is of mere Sovereignty. God may call a Court when he will, and proceed ⟨p. 136⟩upon him, and he is to expect it continually: the threatening is to the very Day, Gen. 2.17. There is no safety, and consequently no Peace, Isa. 57. ult.
3. The Consideration of the danger which by reason of Guilt, the man is every moment exposed unto: It lays the Sinner open to present Execution. There is no time prefixed in the Law, how long it shall be before the Sentence shall take place, and fall on the sinner in its whole weight. He is no sooner a Sinner, but Guilty, and no sooner Guilty but exposed, and God may, i• he please, in that instant Arreign, Judge, Condemn, and Damn him; all the Patience extended to him, is of meer Sovereignty. God may call a Court when he will, and proceed ⟨p. 136⟩upon him, and he is to expect it continually: the threatning is to the very Day, Gen. 2.17. There is no safety, and consequently no Peace, Isa. 57. ult.