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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 › The danger and mischief of Sinful silence and evasions. DOCTRINE.
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5. If therefore God lets you alone in this way, it is a fearful Judgment. It may be you please your selves in this, that you are not molested in your minds; but alas! there is nothing more tremendous. As there is not a greater mercy than to make sin too hot for us, and so to drive us to the refuge that is set before us; so there is not a greater witness of Gods wrath, than to let men alone in their sinful courses, to please themselves in them, and hope to do well enough for all, Hos. 4.17. It is one of the last steps God proceeds to, before he brings them to ruin.
5. If therefore God lets you alone in this way, it is a fearful Judgment. It may be you please your selves in this, that you are not molested in your minds; but alas! there is nothing more tremendous. As there is not a greater mercy than to make sin too hot for us, and so to drive us to the refuge that is set before us; so there is not a greater witness of Gods wrath, than to let men alone in their sinful courses, to please themselves in them, and hope to do well enough for all, Hos. 4.17. It is one of the last steps God proceeds to, before he brings them to ruine.
6. There is a time coming when God will bring you to a reckoning for these things, and then Conscience will roar. The Holiness and Righteousness of God oblige him to see to his own Glory, and the honour of his Law: delays then are no discharges, nor is there any escaping of his righteous Judgments, but by timely betaking to his mercy, till we do so we lie open, and there will be no avoiding it. God hath not forgotten, though you have, and you shall know it too in due time: He will fall upon you, and then your drowsy Consciences shall be full awake: God will set it upon you, and you need not have a worse Fiend to Torment you.
6. There is a time coming when God will bring you to a reckoning for these things, and then Conscience will roar. The Holiness and Righteousness of God oblige him to see to his own Glory, and the honour of his Law: delays then are no discharges, nor is there any escaping of his righteous Judgments, but by timely betaking to his mercy, till we do so we ly open, and there will be no avoiding it. God hath not forgotten, though you have, and you shall know it too in due time: He will fall upon you, and then your drousy Consciences shall be full awake: God will set it upon you, and you need not have a worse Fiend to Torment you.