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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.
3. Learn hence the reason of the gross security of Sinners, under the awakening means of Grace. Though the word be dispensed never so plainly and solemnly, yet how few are moved at it, or concerned for themselves after all? And we might wonde• that men who have reason in them should be s• stupidly senseless, but that the truth in hand may satisfy us: men in their natural state are a company of fools, and brutes, and madmen, that are ou• of their wits, that do not know, and therefore do no• consider; God puts them together, Isa. 1.3. And he that knows no danger, fears none.
3. Learn hence the reason of the gross security of Sinners, under the awakning means of Grace. Though the word be dispensed never so plainly and solemnly, yet how few are moved at it, or concerned for themselves after all? And we might wonde• that men who have reason in them should be s• stupidly senceless, but that the truth in hand may satisfy us: men in their natural state are a company of fools, and bruits, and madmen, that are ou• of their wits, that do not know, and therefore do no• consider; God puts them together, Isa. 1.3. And he that knows no danger, fears none.