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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.
The Words Opened.
IN these words the Psalmist backs his caution or direction with motives, and that is fetched from a double Topic, viz. The infelicity which waits on the disobedient, and the great felicity which waits on those that hearken to God: Where observe,
IN these words the Psalmist backs his caution or direction with motives, and that is fe•cht from a double Topick, viz. The infelicity which waits on the disobedient, and the great felicity which waits on those that hearken to God: Where observe,
1. The Character he gives to each of them▪ the former he brands with the title of Wicked ▪ The words signifies one that is unquiet in himself, and always disturbing of others, and is used for one that is under the Guilt and Dominion of Sin; the latter he calls those that trust in the Lord, there in pointing us to the root of Obedience; the word implies, such a confidence as makes one bold, and to pursue ones work with greatest resolution.