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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.
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3. If you thus allow your selves, you must not think it much, if here you suffer with the wicked. If when God brings his Judgments on the land, and there •e any signal monuments of his displeasure, you be ⟨p. 508⟩hung up in chains with the worst of men. Remember Moses and Aaron dyed in the wilderness, because they dishonoured God at Meribah. For help;
1. Be sure to maintain a spiritual Watch. Look carefully to your selves; you have the same lusts in you that wicked men have, and if not watche• against, they will be too hard for you, and dra• you into presumptuous sins, David was aware […] this, when he said, I will look to my ways, that I […] not with my tongue, Psal. 39.1. And if he had don• so always, it had been better for him.
1. Be sure to maintain a spiritual Watch. Look carefully to your selves; you have the same lusts in you that wicked men have, and if not watche• against, they will be too hard for you, and dra• you into presumptuous sins, David was aware 〈…〉 this, when he said, I will look to my ways, that I 〈…〉 not with my tongue, Psal. 39.1. And if he had don• so alwayes, it had been better for him.