A66111:1536
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. Hence then to what a degree of brutishness•• they grown, who will not be reclaimed by severity? The horse & the mule, though b•uits, may be bo••• and brought to, with pains used upon them; •• to be governed with a bit and a bridle; nee• then must they be under a character of greater brutishness, whom neither mercies will melt, •• judgments break, but they go on in their evi• ways after all; and are there not many, that are grown Judgment proof, and beyond the effica•• of continued smitings? as they, Isa. 1. 5. Hos• 4• 17. Jer. 2. 30. And herein carry in them the very character of fools? according to, Prov. 27. 22
2. Hence then to what a degree of brutishness•• they grown, who will not be reclaimed by sevirity? The horse & the mule, though b•uits, may be bo••• and brought to, with pains used upon them; •• to be governed with a bit and a bridle; nee• then must they be under a character of greater brutishness, whom neither mercies will melt, •• judgments break, but they go on in their evi• ways after all; and are there not many, that are grown Judgment proof, and beyond the effica•• of continued smitings? as they,