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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.
7. The finishing of time will put an end to all opportunity of grace. You now enjoy it, but then no more. Now you have Gods holy Sabbaths, and precious Ordinances; now you may read, hear, pray, ask counsel, repent, believe, and be saved: You have a rich price in your hands, why will you not set your hearts to improve it? when time is done, all these things cease; no more Sabbaths, you must never hear a Sermon more, never be entreated again to be reconciled to God; then the Spirits strivings will cease. Where will you then seek God, when you can no more come there where he useth to reveal himself?
8. Possibly a great portion of your little time is already gone, and you have hitherto neglected this great business. You have had a fair season for many years, living under the Gospel, and enjoying a•• helps for seeking and finding of God; but yo• have squandered them away negligently; and yo• have squandered them away negligently; and yo• have now reason to think that your time is hastening to an end: it may be grey hairs predict your approaching dissolution; it may be you labour of wasting bodily infirmities, that are undermining ⟨p. 323⟩your lives, and telling you that you can hold out but a little longer. And is it not time for you to rouse up now at last, who have so small a remnant of a short life left you to seek God in? and will you lose this too? shall the few ••itting hours that are behind be sent after the rest? there is time yet, but it is upon the last sands; Oh! redeem it.
8. Possibly a great portion of your little time is already gone, and you have hitherto neglected this great business. You have had a fair season for many years, living under the Gospel, and enjoying a•• helps for seeking and finding of God; but yo have squandred them away negligently; and yo have squandred them away negligently; and yo have now reason to think that your time is hastening to an end: it may be gray hairs predic your approaching dissolution; it may be you labour of wasting bodily infirmities, that are undermining