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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.
4. The man cannot be happy unless be holds on in this way to the end, he must keep in it, and not forsake it, but follow it. The Crown is hung up at the Goal, and he must run to that, Rev. 2. 10. If a man be set in a right path, and after that he leaves it, he will be bewildered and lost, Gal. 5. 7. Luk. 9. ult.
4. The man cannot be happy unless be holds on in this way to the end, he must keep in it, and not forsake it, but follow it. The Crown is hung up at the Goal, and he must run to that, Rev. 2. 10. If a man be set in a right path, and after that he leaves it, he will be bewildred and lost, Gal. 5. 7. Luk. 9. ult.
5. That he may thus hold on in his way, be must be kept in it. Perseverance is a gift of God, we have the reason of it, Psal 37. 24. The Lord upholdeth him with his hand. The many falls Gods Children take in hours of Temptation, are an evidence who is their keeper. Hither it is to be ascribed that any get through their way, the difficulties whereof would be too hard for them: Sin, Satan and World, that withstand, would also overcome them, stop up their way, and make them to give out.