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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.
6. It quencheth the fire of Hell. The Unpardoned Sinner is going to Everlasting Burnings; the Curse is dragging him to the place where the Worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched; these endless plagues are prepared on purpose for him, and without a pardon, there is no escaping of them; the doom is past upon him, and there is no other way for the aversion of it, but this, and this is a misery which exceeds our present comprehension; and the expectation of it is tremendous, it is a fearful looking for Judgment, and fiery indignation, Heb. 10.27. But where a pardon is bestowed, this Execution is stopped, and the Sentence which adjudged him to it is reversed, and he can now meditate of these terrible things with a sedate mind; and improve this meditation to the raising of his soul to the more admiration at the wonderful kindness of God, in giving him a delivery from these torments; and is not this happiness indeed? is not he beyond question a blessed man, who is thus freed from all these miseries? this is the lot of every one that is pardoned.
6. It quencheth the fire of Hell. The Unpardoned Sinner is going to Everlasting Burnings; the Curse is dragging him to the place where the Worm dies not, and the fire is not quenched; these endless plagues are prepared on purpose for him, and without a pardon, there is no escaping of them; the doom is past upon him, and there is no other way for the aversion of it, but this, and this is a misery which exceeds our present comprehension; and the expectation of it is tremendous, it is a fearful looking for Judgment, and fiery indignation, Heb. 10.27. But where a pardon is bestowed, this Execution is stopt, and the Sentence which adjudged him to it is reversed, and he can now meditate of these terrible things with a sedate mind; and improve this meditation to the raising of his soul to the more admiration at the wonderful kindness of God, in giving him a delivery from these torments; and is not this happiness indeed? is not he beyond question a blessed man, who is thus freed from all these miseries? this is the lot of every one that is pardoned.