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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.
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, Rom. 7. It makes us ashamed of our selves, and we go to God with humble seeking pardon and acceptance in Jesus Christ▪ Our Godly Sorrow is a witness that it is no more we, but sin in us, Rom. 7 21.
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, Rom. 7. It makes us ashamed of our selves, and we go to God with humble seeking pardon and acceptance in Jesus Christ▪ Our Godly Sorrow is a witness that it is no more we, but sin in us, Rom. 7 21.