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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.
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1. It fills him with astonishing Fear; and that is a perplexing thing. Fear, when it only awakens man to duty, and makes him cautiously seek to secure himself from danger, is good and profitable: but when it over-bears, and puts the man beyond the use of means, it is terrible, and yet such a fear is a natural issue of this sense, Isa. 33.14. Heb. 10 27.
2. It puts him into Horror of Conscience. It fills him with amazing Agonies in his mind. This made Cain cry out, Gen. 4 14. My punishment is greater than I can bear. It fills him with consternation, as Saul, 1 Sam. 28.5. Conscience having read him his doom, he now looks upon God armed ⟨p. 139⟩with Vengeance coming against him, finds himself at the brink of the pit; he looks over, and there sees the amazing miseries, which he is just ready to fall over into, which fills him with inexpressible terrors, that lie heavy on him, like mountains of lead.
2. It puts him into Horrour of Conscience. It fills him with amazing Agonies in his mind. This made Cain cry out, Gen. 4 14. My punishment is greater than I can bear. It fills him with consternation, as Saul,