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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.
7. When they keep on their course. It may be ⟨p. 461⟩is very silently: they are reproved, and are not enraged, nor mock, but hear all quietly, but still do as they did before, nothing is reformed: and so they do not obey the voice of God, which saith that they are contumacious, Jer. 8. 6. Whereas the tractable will set upon reforming, as Josiah, 1 Kings 22.
2. How this Contumacy tends to obstruct the peace and comfort of this blessedness?
A. This will appear in the following Conclusions.
1. That all sinful courses are provoking to God. Sin is the abominable thing that he hates; and though he pitieth it in his. Children, yet when they give place to temptation, and defile themselves, he is angry at it. When David though a man after Gods own heart, had thus contaminated himself, God was displeased,