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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.
4. And he will bring you to this at last. You shall stoop before he hath done with you; and for unregenerate Sinners, if they be contumacious, he may leave them; but as to his Children, he will restore them, and he will do it in this way; and if these means will not do, he will find those that shall. For direction in general,
1. Be sensible of your natural hardness and obstinacy. See and feel that there is this cursed nature in you, which resolutely withstands all good, & opposeth all the means of Grace. Rom. 7. 15. &c.
2. Take heed of hearkening to carnal reasonings. These will stir up our pride, tell us it will be a reproach to us, or very irksome and troublesome, obstruct our present delights, and a thousand pleas it will make.
2. Take heed of hearkning to carnal reasonings. These will stir up our pride, tell us it will be a reproach to us, or very irksome and troublesome, obstruct our present delights, and a thousand pleas it will make.