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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.
Directions how to do so, will fall under a following Doctrine; only be not slight about it; •ive your selves no rest, till you have gotten a par•on signed and sealed. Bless God who hath told •ou of it, and go to him for it in the Name of Christ, ask that faith of him by which you may •ceive it, and be made happy by it.
Directions how to do so, will fall under a fol•wing Doctrine; only be not slight about it; •ive your selves no rest, till you have gotten a par•on signed and sealed. Bless God who hath told •ou of it, and go to him for it in the Name of Christ, ask that faith of him by which you may •ceive it, and be made happy by it.
USE. II. Let this put us all upon the Trial •f our state, Whether we are indeed pardoned. •nd I know no question more solemn and weigh•, that any of us hath to put to our own Soul, •an this, Am I a pardoned one? are my sins forgiven? •th God blotted out my Transgressions? And, except •en be dead asleep in a Lethargy of carnal secu•ty, one would think, they could not live at any •st, till they had gotten a comfortable resolution •f this question; till they had a supporting hope, •ilt upon a good foundation? Can we think of e Judgments of God to which we are exposed? an we meditate on the day of Death which we e hastening unto, and know not how soon it will er take us? Can we have any comfortable noughts of the day of Judgment which is hastening, here all that are found out of Christ, and so without a pardon, will be adjudged to everlasting miseries, and yet not know how we are laid in r such a day? Let us then be solicitous about is matter, and be often bringing our selves to the pictest Rules of Trial which the word of God