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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.
4. Now refer your selves wholly to the Divine Oracle. Look upon the Spirit of God to be the author, and the word of God to be the store house, and the Ordinances to be the Medium of communication, by which you may obtain that Wisdom that is from above, which only will make you wise to Salvation. Remember what that hath told you, Job 28.28. Come then to this School, and humbly wait for his teaching, and so may you arrive at that wisdom which will make you happy; when the worlds wise man, and his wisdom shall perish together.
2. To the Children of God, in whom God hath planted the seeds of true wisdom.
1. Be sensible that you have a great deal of this brutishness remaining in you. We should always look on this to humble us, and make us fearful of our selves. So much as there is of the […] in us, so much folly: David confessed it of himself, 2 Sam. 24.18. And this censure the Psalmist passeth on himself, and his carnal reasonings, Psal. 73.22. So foolish was I, and ignorant, &c. And if we do but observe all our exorbitant actions, we shall find too much of this every day.
1. Be sensible that you have a great deal of this brutishness remaining in you. We should always look on this to humble us, and make us fearful of our selves. So much as there is of the 〈…〉 in us, so much folly: David confessed it of himself,