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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. That fallen man must find God again, if ever he enjoy him. Vision and Fruition go together i• Mans misery is that he hath left him, his only happiness is in finding him. We must find him, if we find life by him, Prov. 8. 35. Till we so do, we remain in the forlorn state state which Sin hath cast us into; That man that doth not find his God again, is undone for ever.
5. For this end God exhibits himself to man, as the object whom they are to seek. God hath made our seeking of him a medium in order to our finding him. Not but that he seeks us first by his preventing Grace, yet in order to his discovering himself graciously to us, he makes us to exert this Grace, in asking after him. Hence in the Gospel Proclamation these two are connected together, Jer. 29. 13.
USE I. Why then do men sit still and live contentedly without him? Let this rouse up Sinners to enquire after him; to seek him, that they may find him; for motive, Consider.