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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
Sermon › The distress of Conscience from Gods heavy hand. DOCTRINE.
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. Are you under this distress already? And do you feel it insupportable?
Be advised.
1. To see the hand of God in it. It may be you find disquietment on your minds, your spirits make you like a troubled and tempestuous Sea; and you cannot tell what to make of it; you think it is some Melancholy that needs Physic, or some molestation of the Devil that gives you trouble; but these are but subordinate causes; look farther, acknowledge God, believe it to be his hand, Psal. 17.14. For you will never carry rightly ⟨p. 186⟩under it, or seek the proper remedy till you come to this.
1. To see the hand of God in it. It may be you find disquietment on your minds, your spirits make you like a troubled and tempestuous Sea; and you cannot tell what to make of it; you think it is some Melancholly that needs Physick, or some molestation of the Devil that gives you trouble; but these are but subordinate causes; look farther, acknowledge God, believe it to be his hand, Psal. 17.14. For you will never carry rightly ⟨p. 186⟩under it, or seek the proper remedy till you come to this.