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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Sermon › The safety of pardoned ones in worst times. DOCTRINE.
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. He is secured with inward peace amidst these blustering storms. Though the floods rise, the waves ⟨p. 376⟩dash, and the winds ruffle them into breaking billows; yet the man hath a calm within, and these things cannot disturb it; they may beat on his outward man, and make a breach in it, bear away his outward comforts, yea swallow up his bodily life, but they cannot shake his tranquillity. He can look on these things with a sedate spirit; and that because he is inwardly fortified with the peace of God, which is a sure fortress against all that would oppress him; he lieth fast upon his rock, and cannot be put from it, Psal. 107.7, 8.46. begin.
2. He is secured with inward peace amidst these blustring storms. Though the floods rise, the waves ⟨p. 376⟩dash, and the winds ruffle them into breaking billows; yet the man hath a calm within, and these things cannot disturb it; they may beat on his outward man, and make a breach in it, bear away his outward comforts, yea swallow up his bodily life, but they cannot shake his tranquillity. He can look on these things with a sedate spirit; and that because he is inwardly fortified with the peace of God, which is a sure fortress against all that would oppress him; he lieth fast upon his rock, and cannot be put from it, Psal. 107.7, 8.46. begin.
3. He can serve the Lord with freedom in the midst of all afflictions. They are the disquietments on our minds, that obstruct our cheerful obedience, when troubles are on us; but he being serene, hath no hindrance in that regard; he is not put from his work by these, Psal. 44 17