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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
The Truly Blessed Man: Or, the WAY to be Happy here, and for ever. › The Text Opened.
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.
In the words observe,
1. The blessedness of some is asserted; Blessed. Interpreters are at a loss about the word. Some make it an Adverb, signifying, well: q. d. it shall be well with such an one. Others an Adjective of the plural, signifying, That all manner of felicities belong to such an one, both in this life, and that to come. The word certainly denotes an happy state, and tells us, that there is in it the affluence of all the good that is desirable; and the Psalmist gives us to understand that there are such men as these in the world.
2. This blessed man is characterized; he is a pardoned man: where,
1. We have the nature of this pardon expressed in three particulars, in all of which Sin is considered as the thing about which this pardon is applied▪ set forth in divers names which are given it in the Word of God; and when he mentions sin indefinitely, it is to be understood of all sin: for one sin unpardoned, is enough to undermine and overthrow all the mans blessedness. Here then,