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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. He, together with this sets home the awful terrors of his Word. There are amazing Threatenings that there stand upon record; there is a Flying Roll of Curses of a great length and breadth: Now these God not only setteth before the man, but he throws them upon his Conscience, and they fall upon him furiously; he is made to take them all to himself, and say, I am the man, this is my portion at the hands of God, &c. And when God hath by Conscience thus applied them, the man is in his own feeling, as if he were under the impressions of all this Wrath; he is in an hell upon earth, and feels the miseries of the damned upon him in great measure; this made Judas choose to go to hell, to know the worst of it.
2. He, together with this sets home the awful terro•rs of his Word. There are amazing Threatnings that there stand upon record; there is a Flying Roll of Curses of a great length and breadth: Now these God not only setteth before the man, but he throws them upon his Conscience, and they fall upon him furiously; he is made to take them all to himself, and say, I am the man, this is my portion at the hands of God, &c. And when God hath by Conscience thus applied them, the man is in his own feeling, as if he were under the impressions of all this Wrath; he is in an hell upon earth, and feels the miseries of the damned upon him in great measure; this made Judas chuse to go to hell, to know the worst of it.
2 If we consider it in respect of the way in which God brings it about, there are these things to be remarked.
1. Sometimes he brings some distressing outward Providence on them, and with it troubleth their Consciences. A time of affliction, is often a time of calling sin to remembrance, a time of adversity is a