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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. It will give you more inward peace and comfort. I dare appeal to the experience of any of Gods Children; when you have strained your Conscience to some guileful trick, whether it have not left a prick there that hath put you to pain; and it is fit it should so do: Whereas whatever you meet with from the world, yet this will be an inward support, and matter of Joy to you in the midst of all; was it not so with Paul, 2 Cor. 1.12.
2. It will give you more inward peace and comfort. I dare appeal to the experience of any of Gods Children; when you have strained your Conscience to some guilful trick, whether it have not left a prick there that hath put you to pain; and it is fit it should so do: Whereas whatever you meet with from the world, yet this will be an inward support, and matter of Joy to you in the midst of all; was it not so with Paul, 2 Cor. 1.12.
3. It will give you more esteem among all men. Not only will good men prize you for it, but the worst of men will have an honourable respect for you on this account. One that is Guileful is low in the esteem of all, but such as would make a tool of him; whereas, sincerity in Conversation, plainness in all a mans dealings, and a care to be upright in all things, commands respect from all that have any moral principle in them. And for direction here;
3. It will give you more esteem among all men. Not only will good men prize you for it, but the worst of men will have an honourable respect for you on this account. One that is Guilful is low in the esteem of all, but such as would make a tool of him; whereas, sincerity in Conversation, plainness in all a mans dealings, and a care to be upright in all things, commands respect from all that have any moral principle in them. And for direction here;