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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. You have a great work to do, and but little time to do it in. If ever you hope to find God propitious, you must break off your sins by Repentance, forsake your evil ways, relinquish your cursed companions; turn to God, believe in Jesus Christ, mortify your lusts, and endeavour the perfecting of holiness. You must give glory to God, before your feet stumble on the dark mountains; and how short a time have you for this? yet despair not: it may be done by Gods ⟨p. 358⟩help▪ only it concerns you to make hast: for;
5. A little more delay will be your utter undoing. It is not for you to say, go away and come to morrow: a few moments more, and your case will be determined unrepealably. You will never have an offer of Grace more, when gone to the Grave, and you are upon the brink of it: the treaty will be over, the day of Grace finished, God forever departed, your Souls laid up in the Prison from whence there is no delivery: and then you will mourn bitterly, and say, Oh! that I had hearkened to Counsel, and received Instruction! Come then just now; forsake your lies, and betake your selves to him this moment: if so, all shall be well; if you will not, God knows whether ever you shall have such another invitation made to you, before you drop into everlasting burnings.
5. A little more delay will be your utter undoing. It is not for you to say, go away and come to morrow: a few moments more, and your case will be determined unrepealably. You will never have an offer of Grace more, when gone to the Grave, and you are upon the brink of it: the treaty will be over, the day of Grace finished, God forever departed, your Souls laid up in the Prison from whence there is no delivery: and then you will mourn bitterly, and say, Oh! that I had hearkned to Counsel, and received Instruction! Come then just now; forsake your lies, and betake your selves to him this moment: if so, all shall be well; if you will not, God knows whether ever you shall have such another invitation made to you, before you drop into everlasting burnings.