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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. The evil and misery which this pardon frees the man from, declares him to be happ• Happiness and Misery are directly contrary each […] other: that therefore which removes this fro• the man, restores him to that again: now th• pardon hath a main stroke here. How this r• moves it, will be considered hereafter; we no• only consider the things that it delivers the m• from, and they are not only seeming, but re• and great miseries; it therefore must needs be• real and great felicity. Here then,
1. The evil and misery which this pardo• frees the man from, declares him to be happ• Happiness and Misery are directly contrary each 〈…〉 other: that therefore which removes this fro• the man, restores him to that again: now th• pardon hath a main stroak here. How this r• moves it, will be considered hereafter; we no• only consider the things that it delivers the m• from, and they are not only seeming, but re• and great miseries; it therefore must needs be• real and great felicity. Here then,
1. It takes off the Condemnation of the L• which was fallen on the Sinner; all manki were for sin, condemned by the Law of Go we read therefore of unbelievers, that they […] condemned already,