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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 3: Divine Teachings are to guide us in our way. DOCTRINE III.
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. That if ever man […] he must be brought into, & kept in this way. On supposition that there is a way to blessedness necessary to be gone in, and that there is but one •ight way, •t is beyond dispute that we must get into it, and persevere i• it, or we shall certainly come shor• of li•• and happiness. We are now speaking of fall•• man, which is the condition of a•l Adams progeny; here then a few remarks.
2. That if ever man 〈…〉 he must be brought into, & kept in this way. On supposition that there is a way to blessedness n•cessary to be gone in, and that there is but one •ight way, •t is beyond dispute that we must get into it, and persev••e i• it, or we shall certainly come shor• of li•• and happiness. We are now speaking of fall•• man, which is the condi•ion of a•l Adams progeny; here then a few remarks.
1. That man by his fail is turned out of the way of felicity. God sat man right at first Eccles. 7.29. But it is of the very nature of sin to take a wrong course,