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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.
our obedience •• like the service of a slave, who must do what he •• bidden, but it is a burden to him, Mal. 1. 13.
our obedienc• •• like the service of a slave, who must do what he •• bidden, but it is a burden to him, Mal. 1. 13.
8. That severe providences are used by God to quic••••• this fear in men. As the promises are of use to •• cite love, so the threatenings to stir up fear; […] the hardness of mens hearts maketh them to ••• pise threatenings; God therefore executeth th•• […] so to make men afraid. Now to these belong […] awful judgments which men in this life are ex••••• ed to. Hence, when Gods people have declined in their obedience, and would not receive coun••• God hath brought some fearful calamity […] them, and this was to let them see that the th•••• nings were not mere scare crows, but realities […] that so the terrors of the Lord might frighten […] into better manners, and put them upon refor•• tion: and this God expected, and threatened […] pursue that course, till it came to this, Levit. 26. ••.