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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. 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.
2. By the outward expression of it, arising from his inward trouble; his Roaring, and that without intermission; the word is properly used of the fearful noise that Lions make in their Roaring, and on wt account was this, but of his Sins which lay on his Conscience, through the apprehension of the Guilt of them? It may be here enquired, whether David is speaking of his Condition before or after Conversion? Whether he represents a Godly or an Ungodly man here? And it may be replied, That it is generally supposed, and not without reason, that this was after he was a pardoned man, but had by some Sins wounded himself: and it is generally reckoned that it refers to the same with,