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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 extent of the Subject; every one that is Godly: It is a disposition that God puts into all that are truly Converted, and •hey shall exert it on the occasions of it.
3. The duty it self; he shall pray: this word when applied to praying, implies the bringing our cause to God, laying it before him, and leaving it with him; all of which is proper to a petitionary prayer.
4. The Object of this prayer; God, he shall pray unto thee; to pray to any other is Idolatry, and to ask help of that which cannot succour us.
5. The thing it self prayed for, for this, i e. for this forgiveness When they find themselves oppressed with the Guilt of sin; or it may point us to the encouragement of so praying; for this, may be read, upon this, i. e. upon the reading and being acquainted with my experience, and good success in so coming to God.