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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.
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 ⟨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.
2. You are undone without him. You must have him to be your God, or you perish; as contentedly as you live without him for the present, there is a time coming when you will be made to know, that there is no happiness but in the fruition of him; all those things whereon you now trust, will shortly fail you, and if you have not a God to uphold you, you sink into remediless perdition; without God, and without hope, Eph. 2. 12.