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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.
9. That when God recalls such providences, and ••• eth them prosperity again, they soon fall from their ••• dience. Prosperity hath ever been dangerous to •• sound professors, See Deut. 32. 15. Hence, […] Apostasy under Gods favours, hath procured […] their trouble, and now in their distress they […] think themselves of a reformation. Judg. 10. ••. Now God pities them, and sends them deliveran••. But here is their unhappiness, it was only fear […] drave them to reform, and now this fear wears way, and they forget their promises, and turn agai••• ⟨p. 487⟩[…] their former vain courses, in which they delight••, and their fear did not break them off cordially ••om: hence that remark, Judg. 2. 18, 19. […] 10. And by this God is put upon it to afflict them afresh, and lay a yoke of trouble upon them. How often […] such changes in providence befall the Children […] Israel, because when God enlarged them; they ••••rned to their vomit and mire, and then God provided new troubles to exercise them withal. •sal. 78. 40. &c. 106. 43. Now when it is thus […] a professing people, we may gather two inferences from it.
9. That when God recalls such providences, and ••• eth them prosperity again, they soon fall from their ••• dience. Prosperity hath ever been dangerous to •• sound professors, See