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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.
8. All a believers comfort and settlement now ariseth from the exercise of this faith. Trouble is, of its own nature troublesome, and tends to unsettle or disquiet the man: all his consolations must now come from God, and often all other doors are shut; and how shall we derive this from God, but by the exercise of faith; and that must be by believing that he is such an one in himself, and will be so to us, Hab. 3. 17, 18.
USE I. For Information in three particulars.
1. Learn hence that a time of trouble will try our faith. There is a double experiment that it will make.
1. It will try the truth of it. Many whiles in tranquility, make a great flourish of their trust in God, and might they always have Halcyon days they would pass for eminent believers, but when ⟨p. 398⟩