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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. That God is usually provoked to anger when […] doth thus. How far he may do it in Soveraign• ty to try his people, I shall not here dispute. […] is such an instance, who complaineth of Gods Terrors, and his writing bitter things against hi• However this is one of the Judgments of Go• that come for Sin, and there hath been a prov• cation offered in order to it, for the most part and this the Psalmist plainly intimates in o• Text; for it was while he kept silence.
1. That God is usually provoked to anger when 〈…〉 doth thus. How far he may do it in Soveraign• ty to try his people, I shall not here dispute. 〈…〉 is such an instance, who complaineth of Gods Terours, and his writing bitter things against hi• However this is one of the Judgments of Go• that come for Sin, and there hath been a prov• cation offered in order to it, for the most part and this the Psalmist plainly intimates in o• Text; for it was while he kept silence.
2. This therefore is an effect or display of his ang• ⟨p. 177⟩God hath no affections properly; but there are […] resultances of his will in the way of his Dispensation to his Creatures, which carry in them resemblance of such a thing in us, which is thus •pressed according to our manner of conception: fflictive Providences are therefore usually assigned to his anger; holy men were wont so to express their resentments of them, Psal 102. 9.