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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.
USE. Let then the consideration of this be for our admonition. Let us be roused hereby to take heed to our selves, how we dally in this affair. Let us not only seek God, but seek him early; that is the way to find him quickly. Let Sinners do it, and let sinning Saints do it. And for our quickening, let us call to remembrance, and be affected with all the considerations urged under the former Conclusion: It is the way to prevent, not only the hazard of never being forgiven, but the danger of being left under long darkness and distress, roaring out of our wounds, and finding no ease.
USE. Let then the consideration of this be for our admonition. Let us be roused hereby to take heed to our selves, how we dally in this affair. Let us not only seek God, but seek him early; that is the way to find him quickly. Let Sinners do it, and let sinning Saints do it. And for our quickning, let us call to remembrance, and be affected with all the considerations urged under the former Conclusion: It is the way to prevent, not only the hazard of never being forgiven, but the danger of being left under long darkness and distress, roaring out of our wounds, and finding no ease.
But I pass to the next thing.
2. We have the privilege of all such as pray for forgiveness in a finding time: Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.
2. We have the priviledge of all such as pray for forgiveness in a finding time: Surely in the floods of great waters they shall not come nigh unto him.