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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. It Scandalizeth men: it often becomes a temptation to others to sin, and this is the greatest mischief that we can do to another, to draw him into Sin: it is to give him a stab at the heart; to destroy him, Rom. 14 15.
2. It occasions others trouble and affliction. One sinner sometimes, and that by one sin, may trouble a whole nation, Josh 7. A Parent may by his sin bring mischief on his family, and procure judgments to his dearest relations. 2 Sam. 12 10.
3. Hence untractableness under the means must needs be unreasonable: this follows from the former; for,