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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.
None but the Righteous can claim this privilege.
None but the Righteous can claim this priviledge.
Conclu. 4. That this privilege and duty belongs to none but these righteous and upright ones. As it is common to all of them, so it is proper to them. There are no other in the world but the righteous and the wicked, and certainly wicked men are here exempted; if not altogether from the duty, yet from the privileges, though in a sense from the duty too. Only that we may cautiously take this up, let a few things to observed.
Conclu. 4. THat this priviledge and duty belongs to none but these righteous and upright ones. As it is common to all of them, so it is proper to them. There are no other in the world but the righteous and the wicked, and certainly wicked men are here exempted; if not altogether from the duty, yet from the priviledges, though in a sense from the duty too. Only that we may cautiously take this up, let a few things to observed.
1. There is a threefold joy which may be considered, viz. sinful, natural and spiritual: These are all mentioned in the Word of God, and exemplified in men: and we may take a brief account of each of them, so far as is for our purpose.