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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.
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.
1. You are strangers to him in your natural state. This is the condition of all men, as they derive from, and stand related to the first Adam. Your condition is laid out, Eph. 2. 12. The relation you may pretend that you have to God by virtue ⟨p. 307⟩of the Gospel Covenant, will not secure you, but if you are still Unregenerate, you are far from him, and he will say, that he knows you not, Mat. 7. 22, 23.
1. You are strangers to him in your natural state. This is the condition of all men, as they derive from, and stand related to the first Adam. Your condition is laid out, Eph. 2. 12. The relation you may pretend that you have to God by vertue