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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 Rejoice abundantly.Sermon › The Righteous should Rejoyce abundantly.
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 Rejoice abundantly.
The Righteous should Rejoyce abundantly.
Conclu. 6. They should rejoice abundantly. The three words used in our in Text, set forth the exuberance of joy; there should be both inward joy, and a carriage suitable to it: and this joy should outbid, though not in the clamour, yet in the intenseness of it, all the joys of the men ⟨p. 612⟩of the world; which will appear, if we Consider,
Conclu. 6. THey should rejoyce abundantly. The three words used in our in Text, set forth the exuberance of joy; there should be both inward joy, and a carriage suitable to it: and this joy should outbid, though not in the clamour, yet in the intenseness of it, all the joys of the men ⟨p. 612⟩of the world; which will appear, if we Consider,
1. It is proper to the Affections to be moved by the object. They are powers put into the Creature, & being powers, there must be something to bring them into act; and this is by way of excitation; and that which so excites them, is the Object that is before them; so that when they have no object to move them, they have no motion. Though man hath a power of love in him, yet if there be nothing for him to love, it doth not exert it self: hence no affection is mentioned but with the object of it.