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

1. Are there not those that will not seek God? Nay they bid him depart from them; if not in words yet their carriages speak their minds. How many are there that despise all the counsels that are given them, who will not pray to God; nor read his word, nor enquire after him? they are angry […] those that give them good counsel? this is the •••ty character of them, Psal. 10. 4. The wicked ••ll not seek after God; and if at any time they are […] led with terrors, they do all they can to […] them, which is a plain discovery of their •••fulness.

1. Are there not those that will not seek God? Nay they bid him depart from them; if not in words yet their carriages speak their minds. How many are there that despise all the counsels that are given them, who will not pray to God; nor read his word, nor enquire after him? they are angry 〈…〉 those that give them good counsel? this is the •••ty character of them, Psal. 10. 4. The wicked ••ll not seek after God; and if at any time they are 〈…〉 led with terrours, they do all they can to 〈…〉 them, which is a plain discovery of their •••fulness.

2. And how many are there who are so taken up with other things, that they can find no time to seek ⟨p. 318⟩him? Their hearts are ensnared with these things and they cannot get from them; the profits, pleasures, and preferments of this world, things lawful in themselves, have stolen their hearts from them; and though Christ calls, and invites them, they hearken not. One hath a Farm to look after, another is over head and ears in Trading, another is aken up with his new married wife, and so the time slides away, wherein he should be seeking an interest in Christ, and he continues estranged from him; and how contentedly do men spend their time at this rate?