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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
Sermon › Doctrine 1: Untractableness under means, a character of a wicked man. DOCTRINE. I.
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.
USE III. Let it Exhort us, as we would approve our selves not to be wicked, to have a care how we carry our selves in this respect; for this end consider.
1. You will else darken your evidence, and this will be very uncomfortable. All our consolation ariseth from our apprehension of Gods love, and of our being Godly: there is then nothing more necessary for them that would live a comfortable life, than to take heed of doing any thing that may obscure this, which such a neglect of our selves will certainly do, both because it will grieve the Spirit, and provoke him to withdraw, and will put a black mark upon us.
2. You are taken out of the world, and therefore should be as unlike them as may be. Rom. 12.2. It then ill becomes you to have the guise of the wicked upon you, as you always have, when you flow your selves to sin as they do, and justify your selves in it, as they do.
2. You are taken out of the world, and therefore should be as unlike them as may be. Rom. 12.2. It then ill becomes you to have the guize of the wicked upon you, as you always have, when you flow your selves to sin as they do, and justify your selves in it, as they do.