N00802:1981
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.
6 If you do not now secure it you must ere-longingly down in sorrow. I• is proper to the worldlings mirth▪ to expire in heaviness, Prov. 14 13 It may go out in this world, i• God will, and it will certainly be extinguished when you die; and what will your immortal Souls then do, when you are swallowed up in the gulf of endless despair? Be then advised to make haste: and if you say, what shall we do to gain this title? let me offer this Direction; Seek after the Righteousness and Uprightness commended to you in the Text and Doctrine; and to that end▪
6 If you do not now secure it you must ere-long ly down in sorrow. I• is proper to the worldlings mirth▪ to expire in heaviness, Prov. 14 13 It may go out in this world, i• God will, and it will certainly be extinguished when you dy; and what will your immortal Souls then do, when you are swallowed up in the gulf of endless despair? Be then advised to make haste: and if you say, what shall we do to gain this title? let me offer this Direction; Seek after the Righteousness and Uprightness commended to you in the Text and Doctrine; and to that end▪
1 See and bewail the miserable state you are in by reason of sin. This is it that hath mar•ed all your mirth, and while you are under the dominion of it, all sorts of miseries are your portion▪ You have lost your Righteousness by it, and your strength is gone, you are by it under Condemnation, and become vain and unprofitable; this condition must be seen and felt in order to a deliverance from it, and you must bemoan your selves by reason of it,