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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 › The safety of pardoned ones in worst times. DOCTRINE.
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.
5. He can see through the Cloud to the other side of it, where it is light, and wait quietly for the issue, Mal. 7.8, 9. Not only is his state secured for an happy eternity, but he hath a prospect of it, Job 23.10. 2 Cor. 5.1. And the faith of this keeps him unmoved: he can sit still and tarry till the tide be spent, and the tranquillity promised be restored to him: he is assured that light is sown for him, and he can cheerfully wait till it be grown and ripe.
5. He can see through the Cloud to the other side of it, where it is light, and wait quietly for the issue, Mal. 7.8, 9. Not only is his state secured for an happy eternity, but he hath a prospect of it, Job 23.10. 2 Cor. 5.1. And the faith of this keeps him unmoved: he can sit still and tarry till the tide be spent, and the tranquillity promised be restored to him: he is assured that light is sown for him, and he can chearfuly wait till it be grown and ripe.
6. And he can husband all these trials for his everlasting advantage. As God intends them to operate for his good, and will govern them to such an issue, so he can by the Grace of God, improve them to this purpose; by applying them to himself for the mortifying of his lusts, and exercising of his graces to his spiritual profit: and whiles he looks on them with such an eye, he is reconciled to them, so as to say, of every one, as Phil. 1.19. This shall turn to my account; and how happy a condition is this? well may it be said of these floods, that they do not come nigh him.