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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.
4. Beware what means you use to get rid of it. If you be not careful, you may involve your selves the more, and make the hand heavier on you. If you fly to your hiding places of deceit, they will disappoint you; if you think to cure it by diverting from it, and putting it out of your mind by other things, it will deceive you; or if you hope to do it by complaining to your accomplices ⟨p. 187⟩and companions in sin, as Judas did, they will give you no help: if you hope to heal it by legal repentances, and reformations, they will disappoint you: if you feel some present ease by it, your distress will revert.
5. Enquire after the right way to get remedy, and practice it.
And for help, Consider;