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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.
4. He hath inward joy in and under all these changes. He feels, and cannot but resent outward troubles; he is not a stock or a stone, hath humane senses and affections: but he possesseth a spiritual joy within, which all this cannot extinguish The apprehension of Gods love, the peace within, have such sweetness in them, that they abate the bitterness of the affliction, and give him abundant consolation under them; if he remembers his faults, he can kiss the rod: if he ⟨p. 377⟩suffer in the outward man, he can rejoice because the inward man is safe, 2 Cor. 4.16. And if there be nothing else, he hath still a God to rejoice in, Hab. 3.17, 18.
4. He hath inward joy in and under all these changes. He feels, and cannot but resent outward troubles; he is not a stock or a stone, hath humane senses and affections: but he possesseth a spiritual joy within, which all this cannot extinguish The apprehension of Gods love, the peace within, have such sweetness in them, that they abate the bitterness of the affliction, and give him abundant consolation under them; if he remembers his faults, he can kiss the rod: if he ⟨p. 377⟩suffer in the outward man, he can rejoyce because the inward man is safe, 2 Cor. 4.16. And if there be nothing else, he hath still a God to rejoyce in, Hab. 3.17, 18.
5. He can see through the Cloud to the other side of it, where it is light, and wait quietly for the issue, Mal. 7.8, 9. Not only is his state secured for an happy eternity, but he hath a prospect of it,