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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 distress of Conscience from Gods heavy hand. 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.
2. How or after what manner God doth this?
A. This may be considered either in respect of the thing it self, or of the way in which God brings it about.
1. If we look upon it in regard to the thing it self. There are two things in it.
1. He awakens the mans Conscience, and sets his sin before him, in the aggravations of it. Gods hand is laid on the Conscience; it was before asleep, and though these sins stood upon record in it, the man ⟨p. 178⟩took no notice of them, and so they gave him no molestation; but now when it is roused, and forced to do its Office, he is made to read these records, compare them with the Rule, and so make a judgement of them, Psal. 50.21. I will set them in order before thee. And now Conscience looks on them in such circumstances as make them have the most formidable and frightful aspect: Did not Cain look on his through such a glass?