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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.
1. There are those that are mistaken; they find ease upon their spirits, and they have an hope that their sins are discharged, they would ⟨p. 61⟩persuade themselves that they have received •emission of them, when there is no such thing: and there are a great many cheats that Satan and their false hearts do put on them in this regard, and persuade them to cry peace to themselves when there is no peace. You have ••ed then to be very heedful in this respect.
1. There are those that are mistaken; they find ease upon their spirits, and they have an hope that their sins are discharged, they would ⟨p. 61⟩perswade themselves that they have received •emission of them, when there is no such thing: and there are a great many cheats that Satan and their false hearts do put on them in this regard, and perswade them to cry peace to themselves when there is no peace. You have ••ed then to be very heedful in this respect.
2. A mistake on this account is very perilous. If whiles we please our selves with a dream of pardon, and peace, and quiet our selves in it, whiles we are indeed in the gall of bitterness, and bond of iniquity, we loose our opportunity of seeking it, are held fast under our Guilt, and live in hazard every day of dropping into the pit from whence there is no delivery. Let us then take diligent heed on this account, lest we rue it when too late; and for Rules of Trial.