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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 › Our Rejoicing should be in the Lord.Sermon › Our Rejoycing should be in the Lord.
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. What cause the Righteous have of abundant joy in him?
A. This will appear in the following things.
1. That God is the chief good. It is goodness that commends the object to the Affections, in the ⟨p. 619⟩fruition whereof joy finds room to exert it self, & •o the greater the good is, there is more matter for it to work upon; but there is none good as God is. Yea, God is the fountain of goodness: the goodness of creatures is derivative, and they have no more in them than he imparts to them, which is little compared with what is in him; they are good, but he is goodness it self, they are Cisterns, and sin hath cracked them too, but he is the fountain of living waters, Jer. 2.13. All the seas of increased & inexhaustible goodness are me• in him.
1. That God is the chief good. It is goodness that commends the object to the Affections, in the ⟨p. 619⟩fruition whereof joy finds room to exert it self, & •o the greater the good is, there is more matter for it to work upon; but there is none good as God is. Yea, God is the fountain of goodness: the goodness of creatures is derivative, and they have no more in them than he imparts to them, which is little compared with what is in him; they are good, but he is goodness it self, they are Cisterns, and sin hath crackt them too, but he is the fountain of living waters,