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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.
2. He expects this of you. He counts himself despised and trifled with, if you call him by such a name, and do not make use of it according to the import of it. Even a bramble, if chosen King, expects to be trusted in, Judg 9. 15.
3. It is by faith that you are to fetch this benefit from him. Though there be all this in God, yet there is a way in which it is communicated to us, and that is by faith on our part: hence the more full and steadfast we are in the exercise of it, the more are we like to experience this benefit: for help,
3. It is by faith that you are to fetch this benefit from him. Though there be all this in God, yet there is a way in which it is communicated to us, and that is by faith on our part: hence the more full and stedfast we are in the exercise of it, the more are we like to experience this benefit: for help,
1. Be often renewing your Assurance; especially when trouble appears. Now revive your evidences, read them over, and see to the strength of them; for according to this, so will you be settled in your reliance on him.