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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.
A. This may be considered either in respect of […] thing it self, or of the way in which God •ings it about.
A. This may be considered either in respect of 〈…〉 thing it self, or of the way in which God •ings it about.
1. If we look upon it in regard to the thing it […]. There are two things in it.
1. If we look upon it in regard to the thing it 〈…〉. There are two things in it.
2. He awakens the mans Conscience, and sets his sin •fore him, in the aggravations of it. Gods hand is […] on the Conscience; it was before asleep, and •ough these sins stood upon record in it, the man ⟨p. 178⟩took no notice of them, and so they gave him no molestation; but now when it is roused, and forced to do its Office, he is made to read these records, compare them with the Rule, and so make a judgment of them, Psal. 50. 21. I will set them in order before thee. And now Conscience looks on them in such circumstances as make them have the most formidable and frightful aspect: Did not Cain look on his through such a glass?