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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.
1. What it is that brings a man into great distress?
2. What evidence may be given to the truth of the DOCTRINE.
1. What it is that brings a man into great Distress?
A. We may take a short account of this in three particulars.
1. Distress is properly a sinking or over bearing perplexity on the mind. There is indeed a distress that mere Animals may be in, arising from an impression made in their sensitive Spirits: but we are speaking of man• who is a rational being, and acts according to the principles of reason. It is true, that which gives occasion for it, may be outward and bodily, but the distress it self hath its great influence on the mind or soul: and it is by