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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. You may expect that if you will not hearken to the Word and Rod, God will have a Sword to cut you off God is in earnest when he takes this course, and he will be glorified by it in the issue; it is his mercy, that when angry, he maketh overtures of peace, and happy they that comply with him: but if Sinners are so foolish and obstinate, as not to give him glory at such a time, he will strain for it, and certainly recover it; ⟨p. 355⟩if you will not be reformed by the Rod, he hath a Sword to cut you off, and what else should he do with such? Hence that warning, Jer. 4.4. And that threatening, Isa. 27.11.
3. You may expect that if you will not hearken to the Word and Rod, God will have a Sword to cut you off God is in earnest when he takes this course, and he will be glorified by it in the issue; it is his mercy, that when angry, he maketh overtures of peace, and happy they that comply with him: but if Sinners are so foolish and obstinate, as not to give him glory at such a time, he will strain for it, and certainly recover it; ⟨p. 355⟩if you will not be reformed by the Rod, he hath a Sword to cut you off, and what else should he do with such? Hence that warning, Jer. 4.4. And that threatning, Isa. 27.11.
4. Gods Judgments, added to his warnings, are wont to be his last essays with men to reclaim them. Hence, when these have been tried, and repeated, and due patience used, and no good comes of them; God, speaking after the manner of men, now seems to be at a loss,