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

1. We are all of us strangers to him in our natural state Eph. 2. 12. The Apostasy hath made an infinite distance between God and Sinners. Man go•• away from God by every Sin, for it is of the nature of Sin to depart from him, Psal. 73. 27. Hence •he Sinners of the Gentiles are said to be afar off, •ct. 2. 39.

1. We are all of us strangers to him in our natural •tate Eph. 2. 12. The Apostasy hath made an infinite distance between God and Sinners. Man go•• away from God by every Sin, for it is of the nature of Sin to deaprt from him, Psal. 73. 27. Hence •he Sinners of the Gentiles are said to be afar off, •ct. 2. 39.

2. If we get not an interest in him, we must perish or ever. Mans misery took its date from his loosing of God, and his happiness begins upon his finding ⟨p. 320⟩of him; nor will he ever be perfectly blessed, till he cometh to that complete and uninterrupted Communion with him, which is reserved for glory. Every distance from God is so far a misery, and they that regard it not now, will find it to their cost, when they shall hear that fearful word, Depart, pronounced upon them: and there is no other way to remedy our misery, but by the getting of this distance removed; & God reconciled to us through Christ: he must, of our enemy be our God, or we are undone.