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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 How this Contumacy tends to obstruct the peace and comfort of this blessedness?
A. This will appear in the following Conclusions.
1. That all sinful courses are provoking to God. Sin is the •••minable thing that he hates; and though he pitieth it in his Children, yet when they give place •o temptation, and defile themselves, he is angry at it▪ When David though a man after Gods own heart, •ad thus contaminated himself, God was displeased, 2 Sam. 11. ult. Hezekiah's pride procured wrath, 2 Chron. 32.25. How is it then with those that lie under the dominion of sin? Psal. 7.11.
1. That all sinful courses are provoking to God. Sin is the •••minable thing that he hates; and though he pittieth it in his Children, yet when they give place •o temptation, and defile themselves, he is angry at it▪ When David though a man after Gods own heart, •ad thus contaminated himself, God was displeased,