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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.
2. When they resolutely reject counsel. They will not receive instruction, as God complains of them, Zeph 3.7. Their pride makes them think themselves too good to be advised, and they scornfully cast it off, sometimes in express terms, as they, Jer. 44.16, 17. And oftener by contemptuous carriages they stop their ears, and wilfully refuse to return, Jer. 8.5. Psal. 58.4. Mat. 23.37. Whereas a tractable spirit readily receives advice, and is thankful for it, 1 Sam 25.32, 33.
2. When they resolutely reject counsel. They will not receive instruction, as God complains of them, Zeph 3.7. Their pride makes them think themselves too good to be advised, and they scornfully cast it off, sometimes in express terms, as they, Jer. 44.16, 17. And oftner by contemptuous carriages they stop their ears, and wilfully refuse to return, Jer. 8.5. Psal. 58.4. Mat. 23.37. Whereas a tractable spirit readily receives advice, and is thankful for it, 1 Sam 25.32, 33.
3. When they mock at the rebukes and counsels given them. Instead of being afraid of Gods Judgments, as he was, Psal. 119.120. They laugh at the Message sent them, and the Messenger that brings it; this is one Article against them,