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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.
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.
2. Resolve, against all discouragements, that he both can, and will do that for you, which shall fully answer this relation. Have an eye therefore on those other Attributes of his, that are to confirm you in the sufficiency and security in this: He is the great and mighty God, who keeps Covenant, &c.