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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.
8. And if God doth give you Repentance at length, this will woefully embitter it. If you are his Children, you shall repent and be forgiven, because your state of Justification is secured: but you shall be brought to it by Repentance; and what deep wounds will these reflections give to your Souls? Be then warned and persuaded to beware of indulging your selves in this course; and if you have done so already, Do so no more, but bitterly bewail it before God, and make hast to get the Sin of it forgiven: and be sure to put it into your self-judging▪ when you aggravate your sins in your humble acknowledgements.
8. And if God doth give you Repentance at length, this will wofully embitter it. If you are his Children, you shall repent and be forgiven, because your state of Justification is secured: but you shall be brought to it by Repentance; and what deep wounds will these reflexions give to your Souls? Be then warned and perswaded to beware of indulging your selves in this course; and if you have done so already, Do so no more, but bitterly bewail it before God, and make hast to get the Sin of it forgiven: and be sure to put it into your self-judging▪ when you aggravate your sins in your humble acknowledgments.
2. We now proceed to consider the Author or Efficient cause of this distress, and that is God himself, or his Hand that was upon him, and brought him into this terrible condition: and it was not an ordinary dispensation, he therefore sets it forth:
1. By the pressure of it; it lay heavy on him.