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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.
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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, 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 terrours, that ly heavy on him, like mountains of lead.
3. This eats out the Comfort of every thing, and maketh all bitter to him. He is now a Magor Missabib, like Pashur, Jer. 20.3, 4. And is ready with them, Rev. 6.16