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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.
A. As God is holy in all his ways, and just in all his doings, so are all his works done in wisdom, there is therefore a worthy design in it; and here we may observe,
1. That the usual provoking cause of this, is their sinful Guile. The deceitfulness there is in Sin and Sinners, is highly displeasing to God; and though God can bear with a great many infirmities in his Children, whiles they are plain and honest, Psal. ⟨p. 181⟩103.13, 14. Yet when once they begin to practice deceit, to hide and cover, this is extremely disingenuous, and he can bear no longer.
1. That the usual provoking cause of this, is their sinful Guile. The deceitfulness there is in Sin and Sinners, is highly displeasing to God; and though God can bear with a great many infirmities in his Children, whiles they are plain and honest, Psal. ⟨p. 181⟩103.13, 14. Yet when once they begin to practice deceit, to hide and cover, this is extreamly disingenuous, and he can bear no longer.
2. God hereby lets men see that there is no imposing on him. And it is high time for him so to do, when they grow up to so much of Atheism and impudence; men would else begin to argue that he either did not know, or not regard, possibly that he approved of their follies,