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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 1: Contumacy to be avoided if we would have true peace. DOCTRINE I.
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.
Contumacy to be avoided if we would have true peace. DOCTRINE I.
They that would enjoy the peace and comfort of Blessedness, must beware of Contumacy under the ⟨p. 458⟩means that God is using with them, and be very tractable under them. The Psalmist is here advising how we may come by that blessedness that flows from a sense of pardon, and experience of the comfort of it, in an hour of Temptation; two things may here come under consideration.
THey that would enjoy the peace and comfort of Blessedness, must beware of Contumacy under the ⟨p. 458⟩means that God is using with them, and be very tractable under them. The Psalmist is here advising how we may come by that blessedness that flows from a sense of pardon, and experience of the comfort of it, in an hour of Temptation; two things may here come under consideration.
1. What is that Contumacy under the means used by God, which we are carefully to avoid?