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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.
5. Hence they set their carnal senses against all the warnings given them. With these they refute all arguments offered to convince them of their folly: with these they mock at counsels, and trample on instructions. They confute the word of God with their own experience, which finds the contrary: Jer. 44.16, 17.
USE. I. For Information in a few particulars.
1. Learn hence the different verdict that God and the world pass upon men. 1 Cor. 3.19. Men think themselves wise if they can baffle the counsels of God, and silence their own Consciences, and sin in despite of counsels and warnings, under a pretence of carnal reason: but God counts them no better than beasts, and writes this wisdom of theirs the most stupid folly: and let us take Gods censure of it, rather than mens vain opinion about it, for his word shall stand.