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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. Renounce all affiance elsewhere. There is a subordination of causes; and God forbid us not, but enjoins us to be found in the use of means; but we must refuse to place our trust in them, when we use them as means, they help us to our refuge, but when we trust in them, they are our refuge, and God is rejected: Beware then of this.
1. Renounce all affiance elsewhere. There is a subordination of causes; and God forbid us not, but enjoyns us to be found in the use of means; but we must refuse to place our trust in them, when we use them as means, they help us to our refuge, but when we trust in them, they are our refuge, and God is rejected: Beware then of this.
2. Resolve and practice against all preposterous causes. When tempests arise, fear solicits us to do some unworthy thing; but this will be to put God away, instead of hiding in him. Resolve, come what will, you will not put forth your hand to any sinful thing, so did they, Dan. 3.16.
3. Be found in the way of Duty. Say not, I trust in God, and therefore will do nothing. We then fly to God, and abide under his wing, when we keep in his way; and we must resolve not to be driven from our duty by all that would discourage us in it. When we dare to be good, and trust God with the event; he accounts himself peculiarly concerned to stand by us.