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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
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. There is a false ease which many have gotten, that takes off the sense of this burden. They think they have gotten it removed, and that pleaseth them. Some are persuaded by Satan to ••ink there is no danger, God will not punish them for their Sins; and so their Guilt troubleth them not; to such God speaks, in Isa. 24.4. Fury is not in me: q. d. You think I will not punish you. Some think themselves well sheltered under their refuges of lies, Isa. 28.14. ⟨p. 52⟩Others please themselves with some legal work that hath past upon them, thinking that they have gotten a pardon, and that quiets them: or they rest upon their outward privileges, Crying The Temple of the Lord, which for the present keeps them from resenting their burden.
2. There is a false ease which many have gotten, that takes off the sense of this burden. They think they have gotten it removed, and that pleaseth them. Some are perswaded by Satan to ••ink there is no danger, God will not punish them for their Sins; and so their Guilt troubleth them not; to such God speaks, in Isa. 24.4. Fury is not in me: q. d. You think I will not punish you. Some think themselves well sheltered under their refuges of lies, Isa. 28.14. ⟨p. 52⟩Others please themselves with some legal work that hath past upon them, thinking that they have gotten a pardon, and that quiets them: or they rest upon their outward priviledges, Crying The Temple of the Lord, which for the present keeps them from resenting their burden.