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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
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.
1. They are members of that body against which God hath a Controversy. That there is an external Dispensation of Gods Covenant in treating with the body of a professing people collectively, is a great truth: on which account the whole are considered as one, and Gods Temporary Providences are accommodated to them as so: thus sometimes the s•n of one may bring Gods Judgments on the •hole Congregation, Josh. 22 20. especially when that one mans sins are influential to debauch a whole people,a s 2 King. 23. 26, 27. compare, Chap. 21. 11. And when good men suffer on this account, it is their infelicity in some regard, but ther• is no unrighteousness with God, nor may they charge iniquity on him.
1. They are members of that body against which God hath a Controverly. That there is an external Dispensation of Gods Covenant in treating with the body of a professing people collectively, is a great truth: on which account the whole are considered as one, and Gods Temporary Providences are accommoda•ed to them as so: thus sometimes the s•n of one may bring Gods Judgments on the •hole Congregation, Josh. 22 20. especially when that one mans sins are influential to debauch a whole people,a s 2 King. 23. 26, 27. compare, Chap. 21. 11. And when good men suffer on this account, it is their infelicity in some regard, but ther• is no unrighteousness with God, nor may they charge iniquity on him.