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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. Sinful joy, to begin with that, may be so accounted either with respect to the matter or manner of it.
1. Sinful joy may be so with regard to the matter of it, when the thing it self in which we rejoice is sinful And there can neither privilege nor duty belong to this, for we ought not to rejoice in sin, there are that rejoice to do evil Prov 2.14 But it is a sinful joy. For Sinners to make themselves merry in their Cups, and with their harlots, in ga•ning, &c highly provokes God; and we read of whose that rejoice in the troubles that befall the ⟨p. 604⟩Children of God, Psal. 35.26. But confusion belong to them.
1. Sinful joy may be so with regard to the matter of it, when the thing it self in which we rejoyce is sinful And there can neither priviledge nor duty belong to this, for we ought not to rejoyce in sin, there are that rejoyce to do evil Prov 2.14 But it is a sinful joy. For Sinners to make themselves merry in their Cups, and with their ha•lots, in ga•ning, &c highly provokes God; and we read of whose that rejoyce in the troubles that befal the ⟨p. 604⟩Children of God, Psal. 35.26. But confusion belong to them.