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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
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.
1. As long as there is any. God will hide himself from you, and then how will you find your hiding place? he sometimes withdraws from his, when trouble is on them, and though they cannot do without him, yet they cannot tell where to find him; was it not so with the Spouse? Cant. •. And what a moan doth he make about this? Job 23.8, 9. Such a thing will distress you?
2. And your sins will stand between you and him to discourage you. Sin unrepented of, when God sets home on the Conscience, will be very terrible; and if he be also withdrawn, what fears will it excite in you? your hearts will misgive, and Satan will thrust in hard. You will certainly be at a woeful loss, till you have, by a soaking repentance, made up the breach.
2. And your sins will stand between you and him to discourage you. Sin unrepented of, when God sets home on the Conscience, will be very terrible; and if he be also withdrawn, what fears will it excite in you? your hearts will misgive, and Satan will thrust in hard. You will certainly be at a woful loss, till you have, by a soaking repentance, made up the breach.
2. Is all right between God and you? Be very careful to keep your selves from all sin, by which any breach may be made between you and him. Let the remembrance of former things, and the distress of them put you on the greater caution: See that if the stoods must come, they find you walking in your integrity, and keeping clear from your iniquity, and then you will be happy.