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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.
1. The Creature which is the subject of them is in it self miserable; for so had •he •all of man made the whole race to be, in as much as they were involved in Guilt and a Curse, which contained all miseries in it. Read the description given of a natural man, Rom. 3 10 &c. and the doom that is fallen upon him, Chap. 5.12. And what a forlorn wretched Creature must we conclude him to be? and by this he is subject capable of mercy.
1. The Creature which is the subject of them is in it self miserable; for so had •he •all of man made the whole race to be, in as much as they were involved in Guilt and a Curse, which contained all miseries in it. Read the description given of a natural man, Rom. 3 10 &c. and the doom that is fallen upon him, Chap. 5.12. And what a forlorn wretched Creature must we conclude him to be? and by this he is subject cap•ble of mercy.
2. The miserable Creature receives inexpressible kindness by these benefits. His misery is relieved in it, yea and remedied, and finally removed by it. Common favours give a present relief, but these make him of miserable to become happy: they take off the guilt, and so remove the Curse that was lying upon him, and confer on him that which fills him with satisfaction, and crowns him with endless felicity: hence blessedness is pronounced on all believers, Psal 2.12.