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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. The Rule of faith tells us there is no deliverance to be expected elsewhere. Not only our spiritual, but our temporal troubles too are beyond the power of any to relieve us against, if God do not afford us succour, David gives this reason why he will trust in God alone, Psal. 62. 6. He only is my rook and salvation.
3. Hence it directs us to go to God in prayer for •his deliverance. If we would have it, not only ⟨p. 404⟩must we go no where else, but we must repair to him, he hath appointed prayer to be a medium of obtaining, Ezel. 37. 37. Hence that, Jam. 5. 13. Is any afflicted! let him pray. Thus are we to acknowledge our dependence on him.
4. There must be faith exercised in every prayer, & in every petition that we offer to him. Without it there is no pleasing God, Heb. 11. 6. If we would ask and receive, we must ask in faith, Jam. 1. 5, 6. Without this ingredient, God reckons us. but to howl; and there are three things in which faith is to exert it self.