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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.
2. To the Converted. You that are in a pardoned state, this Exhortation belongs to you also, and there is never an one of you but may have occasion for making use of it. Remember there is •one of us but is daily liable to sin, whiles a deceitful heart within, and a tempting Devil, and a ••ning world without, are giving us provocation: and if we are drawn into sin, we are thereby exposed to trouble, it makes a wound, and we may •ook for pain. The Spirit of God will put us to •ouble in order to a kindly repentance; and Sa••n will molest us, seeking to drive us to despair; and when it is so, the only way in which we •an look for stable relief is in a right acknowledging of our sins to God. And here,
2. To the Converted. You that are in a pardoned state, this Exhortation belongs to you also, and there is never an one of you but may have occasion for making use of it. Remember there is •one of us but is dayly liable to sin, whiles a deceitful heart within, and a tempting Devil, and a ••ning world without, are giving us provocation: and if we are drawn into sin, we are thereby exposed to trouble, it makes a wound, and we may •ook for pain. The Spirit of God will put us to •ouble in order to a kindly repentance; and Sa••n will molest us, seeking to drive us to despair; and when it is so, the only way in which we •an look for stable relief is in a right acknowledging of our sins to God. And here,
1. Keep up the exercise of thus confessing for the repenting of this distress. There are daily failings nd follies in us; and these will scratch us, and stly fester, if not heeded. There are that have