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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.
2. The upright in heart. This expression is not Synonymical of the former, but points at something else in the Subject; that had a respect to Justification, this to Sanctification, and points to the inseparableness of them. The word comes of a •oot that signifies, to go strait, or regularly, and is ⟨p. 584⟩used in the Word of God to denote sincerity. By uprightness of heart we are to understand that there is a principle of integrity in him, and that his cordial aim is to go strait in his whole Conversation: though through infirmity, he may come short in act, yet his heart is right: so that uprightness is not opposed to infirmity, but to hypocrisy, else it would be a title that none in this life could challenge.
2. The upright in heart. This expression is not Synonimical of the former, but points at something else in the Subject; that had a respect to Justification, this to Sanctification, and points to the inseparableness of them. The word comes of a •oot that signifies, to go strait, or regularly, and is ⟨p. 584⟩used in the Word of God to denote sincerity. By uprightness of heart we are to understand that there is a principle of integrity in him, and that his cordial aim is to go strait in his whole Conversation: though through infirmity, he may come short in act, yet his heart is right: so that uprightness is not opposed to infirmity, but to hypocrisie, else it would be a title that none in this life could challenge.
2. The Exhortation it self, which is in sum, to rejoice, but it is emphatically set forth by a triplication of the advice in a variation of words; pointing us to,
2. The Exhortation it self, which is in summe, to rejoyce, but it is emphatically set forth by a triplication of the advice in a variation of words; pointing us to,