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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
Sermon › The Righteous should always Rejoice.Sermon › The Righteous should alwayes Rejoyce.
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.
The Righteous should always Rejoice.
The Righteous should alwayes Rejoyce.
Conclu. 5. These should rejoice always. The duty is urged again and again, noting constancy in it, and see, 1 Thes. 5.16. Rejoice ⟨p. 607⟩evermore, Phil. 4.4 Rejoice, and again I say Rejoice. This is an hard lesson to flesh and blood, and Gods Children are sometimes stumbled at it; how often doth God call them to mourning? and how shall they then rejoice? I shall endeavour to make this plain in the following Conclusions.
Conclu. 5. THese should reioyce always. The duty is urged again and again, noting constancy in it, and see, 1 Thes. 5.16. Rejoyce ⟨p. 607⟩evermore, Phil. 4.4 Rejoyce, and again I say Rejoyce. This is an hard lesson to flesh and blood, and Gods Children are sometimes stumbled at it; how often doth God call them to mourning? and how shall they then rejoyce? I shall endeavour to make this plain in the following Conclusions.
1. Gods Children have their mourning times here. Not only have they abundant occasion for it in he Providence of God, but it is their duty to mourn, when God calls them to it. As long as they carry a body of death about with them, and are led captive by it, they may well groan, & cry ut as he,