The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

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.

3. He is willing to be found by you. Whence is it that he makes such discoveries of himself to you in the Gospel? that he cometh so near you in the means of Grace? that he so displays himself in the face of Christ? Surely all the Messages that are sent you from Sabbath to Sabbath, are to let you understand how ready he is to be found, why else doth he bid you look to him and be saved, Isa. 45. 22.

4. Hence if you seek him in truth, he will certainly manifest himself to you. He would never have called you so earnestly, nor expressed himself so grieved at your neglect, if it were not so. He waits for it after all your refusals, who might have put you ere this beyond all hope, did he not in compassion, resolve to give further opportunity of seeking him. He therefore cries how long? Prov. 1. 22.