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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.
4. A most earnest endeavour to conform our life to them. The ways of God are given us to wa•k in; we choose them not to talk of, but for our practice▪ hence an upright heart studieth more to know & practice them every day; they are the men of his counsel, Psal 119.24. For this end he lays them up […] his heart, that they may preserve him from sin, v. •1. He walks in the light of them, and regulates •is whole conversation thereby, verse 105. Nor doth he willingly divert from them.
4. A most earnest endeavour to conform our life to them. The ways of God are given us to wa•k in; we chuse them not to talk of, but for our practice▪ hence an upright heart studieth more to know & practice them every day; they are the men of his •ounsel, Psal 119.24. For this end he lays them up 〈…〉 his heart, that they may preserve him from sin, v. •1. He walks in the light of them, and regulates •is whole conversation thereby, verse 105. Nor doth he willingly divert from them.
5. An hearty bewailing of our short coming. The best of us in many things offend; and in every thing are defective; there is nothing we do, but God might justly make exceptions against it, Psal. 143.•. But herein we testify our uprightness, in that ⟨p. 594⟩it makes us go mourning every day, we cry […] by reason of it, as he,