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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. It fills him with astonishing Fear; and that is […] perplexing thing. Fear, when it only awakens ma• to duty, and makes him cautiously seek to secure himself from danger, is good and profitable: b• when it over-bears, and puts the man beyond th• use of means, it is terrible, and yet such a fear is […] natural issue of this sense, Isa. 33. 14. Heb. 10. 27.
1. It fills him with astonishing Fear; and that is 〈…〉 perplexing thing. Fear, when it only awakens ma• to duty, and makes him cautiously seek to secur• himself from danger, is good and profitable: b• when it over-bears, and puts the man beyond th• use of means, it is terrible, and yet such a fear is 〈…〉 natural issue of this sense, Isa. 33. 14. Heb. 10. 27.
2. It puts him into Horror of Conscience. It fil• him with amazing Agonies in his mind. Th• made Cain cry out, Gen. 4. 14. My punishment […] greater than I can bear. It fills him with consternation, as Saul,