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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 › Right Confession, its nature and usefulness. DOCTRINE. › Proposition 6: PROPOSITION VI.
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.
3. Hence you have the matter of this distress on you. And what is it that is so bitter and burden some to the Conscience, but a Conviction of Sin, and apprehension of the Guilt that attendeth it? It is a fear of the wrath of God, arising from •n expectation of having it fall upon us: whiles then you are under Guilt, there needs nothing but the awakening of Conscience, and making it to feel the impressions thereof upon it, to bring the man under the most hellish amazements that can be thought of. It is only because Conscience is asleep, ⟨p. 240⟩that you are quiet, and God knoweth ho• to rouse it when he pleaseth, and he will certainly do it sooner or later: There is no peace to the wicked, Isa. 57.20
4. Your nourishing your security, doth but lay in […] make your distress the more terrible. You may enjoy a little present ease by it, but will be forced to pay interest for it afterwards. The calm will be over, and a storm will arise, there is no preventing it: and not only so, but the tempest will be the more impetuous. Your Fair Days are but Weather-breeders, and all the Sins with which you nourish this security will help to aggravate your Guilt, and make the remorses of Conscience more severe. Here then,
4. Your nourishing your security, doth but lay in 〈…〉 make your distress the more terrible. You may enjoy a little present ease by it, but will be forced to pay interest for it afterwards. The calm will be over, and a storm will arise, there is no preventing it: and not only so, but the tempest will be the more impetuous. Your Fair Days are but Weather-breeders, and all the Sins with which you nourish this security will help to aggravate your Guilt, and make the remorces of Conscience more severe. Here then,