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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.
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3. If we resist him, it will be the way to have him be gone. The Spirit of Christ is a tender Spirit: ⟨p. 352⟩Gods own Children in whom he dwells, if they take not heed, may grieve him; and if they do, he can and will withdraw from them to their great sorrow; the Spouse found it to her cost, Cant. 5. We are therefore warned to take heed of grieving him, Eph. 4 30. And there is a sinful disposition in unconverted sinners to resist him, Acts 7.51. And this is done when we regard not his application of himself to us, when we turn away his awakenings, and refuse to submit to them, and choose to hearken to the solicitations of our vain minds, and suggestions of Satan.
3. If we resist him, it will be the way to have him be gone. The Spirit of Christ is a tender Spirit: ⟨p. 352⟩Gods own Children in whom he dwells, if they take not heed, may grieve him; and if they do, he can and will withdraw from them to their great sorrow; the Spouse found it to her cost, Cant. 5. We are therefore warned to take heed of grieving him, Eph. 4 30. And there is a sinful disposition in unconverted sinners to resist him, Acts 7.51. And this is done when we regard not his application of himself to us, when we turn away his awakenings, and refuse to submit to them, and chuse to hearken to the sollicitations of our vain minds, and suggestions of Satan.