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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.
4. And now God withholds from them his Consolations, so that they cannot receive comfort or support by them. There are such Cordials in the Word, as are fitted for such Souls, and possibly are offered them in the Ministry, or privately set before them, but they put them away as not belonging to them, they •••ieve them not, but rather aggravate their trouble, Psal. 77.2. And God withholds his Testimony from his Children, & they can take hold of nothing to relieve them, can apprehend no faith in them, no love of God, no hatred of sin, which they dare call so: And for others, they are as the troubled sea, that can find no rest: and they go a long time in this condition, God all the while appearing to them as an enemy.
4. And now God witholds from them his Consolations, so that they cannot receive comfort or support by them. There are such Cordials in the Word, as are fitted for such Souls, and possibly are offered them in the Ministry, or privately set before them, but they put them away as not belonging to them, they •••ieve them not, but rather aggravate their trouble, Psal. 77.2. And God witholds his Testimony from his Children, & they can take hold of nothing to relieve them, can apprehend no faith in them, no love of God, no hatred of sin, which they dare call so: And for others, they are as the troubled sea, that can find no rest: and they go a long time in this condition, God all the while appearing to them as an enemy.
3. Why or for what end he doth it?