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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. 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.
1. By the inward efficacy of his trouble; it wasted, it consumed him, it made his bones old, and dried up his radical moisture; for so the word used, properly signifieth. The meaning is, it wore out his Life, Strength, Vigour, and made a Skeleton of him.
1. By the inward efficacy of his trouble; it wasted, it consumed him, it made his bones old, and dryed up his radical moisture; for so the word used, properly signifyeth. The meaning is, it wore out his Life, Strength, Vigour, and made a Skeliton of him.