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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.
3 If any in the world have cause to rejoice, the Children of God have so. Worldly men think they have good reason for it; but it is certain that the Children of God have infinitely mor•. Look over the worlds inventory, and then the Saints, and you must needs confess this to be a great truth. Need then must it be a preposterous thing for a carnal worldling to be merry and jocund, and a Saint sinking in spirit, and overwhelmed with grief; they indeed have their weeping time, whiles the other laugh, Luk 6 21 25. But they have more to joy in, in their weeping time, than the other in their laughing time.
3 If any in the world have cause to rejoyce, the Children of God have so. Worldly men think they have good reason for it; but it is certain that the Children of God have infinitely mor•. Look over the worlds inventory, and then the Saints, and you must needs confess this to be a great truth. Need then must it be a preposterous thing for a carnal worldling to be merry and jocund, and a Saint sinking in spirit, and overwhelmed with grief; they indeed have their weeping time, whiles the other laugh, Luk 6 21 25. But they have more to joy in, in their weeping time, than the other in their laughing time.
4. There is nothing they meet with in this world, ⟨p. 602⟩sufficient to obstruct their joy. There are Changes of Providence which they pass under, and they are sometimes called to heaviness, and mourning, but none of all this can take from them their causes of rejoicing, or be sufficient to excuse them from exercising it, Jam. 12. But of this afterwards.
4. There is nothing they meet with in this world, ⟨p. 602⟩sufficient to obstruct their joy. There are Changes of Providence which they pass under, and they are sometimes called to heaviness, and mourning, but none of all this can take from them their causes of rejoycing, or be sufficient to excuse them from exercising it, Jam. 12. But of this afterwards.