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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 › Doctrine 2: Ular Application, the best way of teaching. DOCTRINE II.
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.
1. If persons have been notoriously & scandalously sinful, their sins ought to be laid open, that they may ashamed▪ & others warned. When their crimes are public, and they impenitent, they are to be openly rebuked, and others advised by their example, 1 Tim. 5.20.
1. If persons have been notoriously & scandalously sinful, their sins ought to be laid open, that they may ashamed▪ & others warned. When their crimes are publick, and they impenitent, they are to be openly rebuked, and others advised by their example, 1 Tim. 5.20.
2. It is our duty to speak to the whole, as if we spake to every one personally. Our manner of application ought to be, as if we were talking with b•• one, and so we are to call upon▪ all to apply […] themselves: holy men therefore on Scripture record for the most part apply precepts and warnings in the singular number: thus all the Commands in the Decalogue are delivered; and innumerable instances of like nature might be produced.
2. It is our duty to speak to the whole, as if we spake to every one personally. Our manner of application ought to be, as if we were talking with b•• one, and so we are to call upon▪ all to apply 〈…〉 themselves: holy men therefore on Scripture re•cord for the most part apply precepts and warnings in the singular number: thus all the Com•mands in the Decalogue are delivered; and innumerable instances of like nature might be produced.