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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.
4. Beware what means you use to get rid of it. If you be not careful, you may involve you• selves the more, and make the hand heavier o• you. If you fly to your hiding places of deceit they will disappoint you; if you think to cure […] by diverting from it, and putting it out of your mind by other things, it will deceive you; or […] you hope to do it by complaining to your accomplices ⟨p. 187⟩and companions in sin, as Judas did, they will give you no help: if you hope to heal it by •gal repentances, and reformations, they will disappoint you: if you feel some present ease by it, your distress will revert.
4. Beware what means you use to get rid of it. If you be not careful, you may involve you• selves the more, and make the hand heavier o• you. If you fly to your hiding places of decei• they will disappoint you; if you think to cure 〈…〉 by diverting from it, and putting it out of your mind by other things, it will deceive you; or 〈…〉 you hope to do it by complaining to your accomplices ⟨p. 187⟩and companions in sin, as Judas did, they will give you no help: if you hope to heal it by •gal repentances, and reformations, they will dis•ppoint you: if you feel some present ease by it, your distress will revert.
5. Enquire after the right way to get remedy, and practice it.