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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. 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.
1. We must believe that if ever we be delivered, it must be by God. Faith must keep us close to this object: and we must dwell on this conclusion, else we shall be read to run elsewhere: We must resolve that if we look elsewhere, we for sake the fountain for a broken Cistern, and shall be disappointed.