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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. For the evidence that he may so.
3. The ground of it, or how it comes to pass?
1. When God is said to be found?
A. In respect of his Omnipresence it is every where. Act. 17. 27, 28. And with regard to his Providence, he fills all with his presence and influence, Psal. 135. 6. But it here aims at a gracious discovery which God makes of himself to us. We then find him, when we obtain favour from him in the thing we seek him for, when he is propitious to us, Deut. 4. 29. Gods being found is, opposed to his hiding himself; and his people account him to do so, when they receive no favourable returns of their Prayers, no gracious effects coming thereupon. ⟨p. 303⟩