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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.
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.
3. Interpret all the means that God useth, to be his kindness. Though they seem never so harsh, yet take no prejudice at them, but believe that it is good for you, that he so deals with you: that if he had let you alone, and suffered you to go on, you had perished: see his good will in reproofs, warnings, strokes of Providence: if we could but be reconciled to Gods dealings, it would meeken• our spirits into a gentle and pliable frame.
3. Interpret all the means that God useth, to be his kindness. Though they seem never so harsh, yet take no prejudice at them, but believe that it is good for you, that he so deals with you: that if he had let you alone, and suffered you to go on, you had perished: see his good will in reproofs, warnings, stroaks of Providence: if we could but be reconciled to Gods dealings, it would meeken• our spirits into a gentle and pliable frame.
4 Beg of God to subdue your contumacy. See th• it is beyond your power to get the conquest o•• it; and carry it to him who is able to cure yo it, to mortify it, to surprise and demolish