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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.
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. 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.
7. And this may possibly be when it is too late. It may be not before your Soul stealeth into another World, and drops into the hands of Devils. There are some such Wretches, who die like Lambs, ⟨p. 173⟩but in a moment this rending Lyon falls upon them. It may be on a death bed, when you have spent a life in sin, and lived secure, and now time and opportunity is past, and God will not give you Repentance, but open your eyes to see what you have been doing, and then let you see whether you are going, and the pit into which you are entering, and what a terror will this be?
7. And this may possibly be when it is too late. It may be not before your Soul stealeth into another World, and drops into the hands of Devils. There are some such Wretches, who dy like Lambs,