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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.
Contumacy to be avoided if we would have true peace.
DOCTRINE I.
They that would enjoy the peace and comfort of Blessedness, must beware of Contumacy under the ⟨p. 458⟩means that God is using with them, and be very tractable under them. The Psalmist is here advising how we may come by that blessedness that flows from a sense of pardon, and experience of the comfort of it, in an hour of Temptation; two things may here come under consideration.
THey that would enjoy the peace and comfort of Blessedness, must beware of Contumacy under the ⟨p. 458⟩means that God is using with them, and be very tractable under them. The Psalmist is here advising how we may come by that blessedness that flows from a sense of pardon, and experience of the comfort of it, in an hour of Temptation; two things may here come under consideration.