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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
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.
5. A little more delay will be your utter undoing. It is not for you to say, go away and come to morrow: a few moments more, and your case will be determined unrepealably. You will never have an offer of Grace more, when gone to the Grave, and you are upon the brink of it: the treaty will be over, the day of Grace finished, God forever departed, your Souls laid up in the Prison from whence there is no delivery: and then you will mourn bitterly, and say, Oh! that I had hearkened to Counsel, and received Instruction! Come then just now; forsake your lies, and betake your selves to him this moment: if so, all shall be well; if you will not, God knows whether ever you shall have such another invitation made to you, before you drop into everlasting burnings.
5. A little more delay will be your utter undoing. It is not for you to say, go away and come to morrow: a few moments more, and your case will be determined unrepealably. You will never have an offer of Grace more, when gone to the Grave, and you are upon the brink of it: the treaty will be over, the day of Grace finished, God forever departed, your Souls laid up in the Prison from whence there is no delivery: and then you will mourn bitterly, and say, Oh! that I had hearkned to Counsel, and received Instruction! Come then just now; forsake your lies, and betake your selves to him this moment: if so, all shall be well; if you will not, God knows whether ever you shall have such another invitation made to you, before you drop into everlasting burnings.
Prop. 2. I should now have proceeded to the Second Proposition in the Doctrine, viz
That if we would speed in our Prayers to God for forgiveness, we must take this time to seek it in. But this hath superseded in the Discourse on the former. That we all stand in need of daily forgiveness, hath been before evidenced; and that if we hope to obtain it, we must seek it of God in the way of Prayer. It is not then a matter of indifferency when we so address. him; but we must take the finding time to do it in. There are three Conclusions which result from the premises, which give us the confirmation of this Proposition, viz.