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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.
1. If it be any outward thing, be ashamed of it, & resist it. Is it some cross or disappointment in the world; see how beneath a Child of God this is, & how unreasonable; withstand it then to the uttermost, and beg Grace of God to help you to overcome it.
2. Is it any spiritual desertion that you labour of? This is enough to put you into sadness, and make you Sick of love. However you must expostulate with your selves, as he, Psal. 43. ult. Why art thou •ast down, &c. And in this hope you must endeavour to regain the light of his countenance: and to that end,
•. Search for the sin that hath occasioned it▪ You ⟨p. 651⟩may well think that you have some way carried it unhandsomely to Christ; call your selves to a strict account about is, and deal home with your hearts in it, Cant. 5. begin.