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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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3. Hence there will a time come, when Conscience shall reflect on this Guilt, and then they will be in distress. We are told there is such a time coming, Prov. 1.27. God did not put a Conscience into man for nothing, and he will make it do its Office •o purpose before he hath done with it. Though men do not, yet God doth See their day is coming, and laughs at their present sport, Psal. 37.13. And there is no escaping it.
4. This Reprobate sense is a fearful Judgment of God on profligate Sinners. Suppose they are brawned and have out grown the sense of reflections; this is no privilege, but indeed one of the awfulest witnesses of Gods fearful anger, Rom. 1.18. Eph. 4 19. Nor is there any thing that carrieth in it a greater symptom of Reprobation.
4. This Reprobate sense is a fearful Judgment of God on profligate Sinners. Suppose they are brawned and have out grown the sense of reflexions; this is no priviledge, but indeed one of the awfulest witnesses of Gods fearful anger, Rom. 1.18. Eph. 4 19. Nor is there any thing that carryeth in it a greater symptom of Reprobation.