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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Sermon › Doctrine 3: God to be sought in a finding time. DOCTRINE. III.
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.
4. What if God should take the Gospel away from you? This also is a Judgment threatened, Mat. 21.43. Rev. 2.5. And God is wont to execute it, when other means fail, and an Apostatizing people will not be reclaimed. How many famous Churches have there been in the world, which are utterly ruined, and lie in rubbish, or swallowed up in Paganism or […]? Nor are we more secure. How doleful a thing would it be, to se• the whole face of a Church altered, all the means of grace lost and gone, God forsaking his house, and removing from us? if ever it come to this▪ it will be because we did not know the things of our peace in the day of them. Let the very thoughts […] such a thing put us upon improving the pre•••• precious season.
4. What if God should take the Gospel away from you? This also is a Judgment threatned, Mat. 21.43. Rev. 2.5. And God is wont to execute it, when other means fail, and an Apostatizing people will not be reclaimed. How many famous Churches have there been in the world, which are utterly ruined, and ly in rubbish, or swallowed up in Paganism or 〈…〉? Nor are we more secure. How doleful a thing would it be, to se• the whole face of a Church altered, all the means of grace lost and gone, God forsaking his house, and removing from us? if ever it come to this▪ it will be because we did not know the things of our peace in the day of them. Let the very thoughts 〈…〉 such a thing put us upon improving the pre•••• precious season.