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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. The course he took to get relief against it, together with the good Success of it. Verse 5.
1. We have before us the distress he was in by reason of his Sin; in which also are two things.
1. The distress it self.
2. What it was that gave occasion of it; or whence it did proceed, which are mixed in the words, but may be handled in their order.
1. The distress it self: Set forth in pathetical Expressions, and Similitudes, borrowed to shadow the extremity of it: and there are two things in which he discovers the dolefulness of his condition.