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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.
2. Whether this have any influence into our pardon or Justification?
3. What evidence this gives to confirm us in the knowledge and belief of our being pardoned and justified? Of these in order.
1. What is to be understood by one in whose Spirit there is no Guile?
A. This manner of expression is used in the Scriptures more than once, as a Periphrasis of a Godly man: So, Joh. 1.47 Rev. 14 5. The word [Guile] signifies Fraud or Deceit; but is used equivocally, Sometimes in a good, sometimes in a bad sense. There is an honest Craft, 2 Cor. 12.16. and there is a dishonest one, which is pointed at in our Text: and there are many things in which this Guile is practised; there is Guile in mens words, such is Flattery, Psal 12.2, 3 and Lying to deceive,