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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. These Judgments, whether public or personal, are Testimonies of Gods displeasure at men for neglecting to seek him. He herein witnesseth his righteous anger at them; and the reason is because they have not sought him, but something else instead of him, Jer. 2. 17. Isa. 57. 17. If they had not forgotten him, he had not fallen upon them.
1. These Judgments, whether publick or personal, are Testimonies of Gods displeasure at men for neglecting to seek him. He herein witnesseth his righteous anger at them; and the reason is because they have not sought him, but something else instead of him, Jer. 2. 17. Isa. 57. 17. If they had not forgotten him, he had not fallen upon them.
2. The proper design of these Judgments, is to awaken them to seek him. A professing people may so far provoke him, as to fall upon them in his fury, and make his Judgments a Sword to cut them off; but it is not so at first; they are part of his Discipline, hence called his Corrections, ⟨p. 336⟩and God, speaking after the manner of men, tell• them what he expected, Zeph. 3. 17. I said thou• wilt receive instruction, &c.