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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
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ON what occasion this Psalm was penned, we are not told. It evidently appears, by the matter of it, that it was when the Psalmist had been under sore distress of mind, by reason of the deep sense of his Sin, and was relieved by God; and it is generally supposed, that it bears a reference ⟨p. 8⟩to that great and complicated sin of his, respecting the matter of Uriah; concerning which also several other Psalms are thought to be written besides the Fifty first.
ON what occasion this Psalm was penned, we are not told. It evidently appears, by the matter of it, that it was when the Psalmist had been under sore distress of mind, by reason of the deep sence of his Sin, and was relieved by God; and it is generally supposed, that it bears a reference ⟨p. 8⟩to that great and complicated sin of his, respecting the matter of Uriah; concerning which also several other Psalms are thought to be written besides the Fifty first.
The Title of the Psalm is, Maschil of David; the word signifieth, to Teach: Some think it here intends a sort of Instrument that bare this name: Others, that it points to the kind of Song suited to such a Tune, according to the numbers or measures of it. But generally it is supposed, that the matter of the Psalm is pointed to in it; viz. that it is a Psalm for teaching or instruction. There are some of Praise, others Petitionary, some Historical, &c. But this is Doctrinal; and the matter of it excellently suits to this interpretation; and there are ten others besides this that bear the same inscription.