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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
The Truly Blessed Man: Or, the WAY to be Happy here, and for ever.
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.
The Truly Blessed Man: Or, the WAY to be Happy here, and for ever.
PSAL. XXXII.1, 2. Blessed is he whose Transgression is forgiven, whose Sin is covered. 2.v. Blessed is the man unto whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile.
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ON what occasion this Psalm was penned, we are not told. It evidently appears, by the matter of it, that it was when the Psalmist had been under sore distress of mind, by reason of the deep sense of his Sin, and was relieved by God; and it is generally supposed, that it bears a reference ⟨p. 8⟩to that great and complicated sin of his, respecting the matter of Uriah; concerning which also several other Psalms are thought to be written besides the Fifty first.
ON what occasion this Psalm was penned, we are not told. It evidently appears, by the matter of it, that it was when the Psalmist had been under sore distress of mind, by reason of the deep sence of his Sin, and was relieved by God; and it is generally supposed, that it bears a reference ⟨p. 8⟩