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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.
USE II. For Warning and advice to all, and that,
1. To take heed of being drawn into sin by any vain pretences. We are all too easy to hearken to Satan's insinuations, and the solicitations of our own lusts, and a little matter will allure us to do amiss: we therefore need something to caution us, and fortify us against this: and what can be more useful on this account, than the truth before us, if throughly believed, and seasonably thought on, with due solemnity, when the temptation offers and is urge••? now to reflect, if I comply, I shall unavoidably provoke Gods displeasure, and pull his hand upon me, and then to think how heavy it will be, how sorely it will press us; if it were only to fall into the hands of the Creature, it were little; but to fall into Gods hands, how fearful? Heb. 10.31. How would this repel the temptation?
1. To take heed of being drawn into sin by any vain pretences. We are all too easy to hearken to Satans insinuations, and the solicitations of our own lusts, and a little matter will allure us to do amiss: we therefore need something to caution us, and fortify us against this: and what can be more useful on this account, than the truth before us, if throughly believed, and seasonably thought on, with due solemnity, when the temptation offers and is urge••? now to reflect, if I comply, I shall unavoidably provoke Gods displeasure, and pull his hand upon me, and then to think how heavy it will be, how sorely it will press us; if it were only to fall into the hands of the Creature, it were little; but to fall into Gods hands, how fearful? Heb. 10.31. How would this repel the temptation?