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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.
3. We must also believe that he will give us perfect deliverance at last. Whether he will do it in this life, we may not determine: it may be most ⟨p. 405⟩convenient for us that it should be otherwise: but this a Child of God ought to build upon, that he shall be brought out of all trouble in the winding up, and his present troubles shall contribute to the preparing of him for it: so the Psalmist resolveth, Psal. 73.24.
Prop. 2. That true faith carrieth out the heart to resolve, to signalize these deliverances, when received, with suitable returns of praise. Faith influenceth him with this purpose in the very praying for them. Here take these conclusions.
Prop. 2. That true faith carrieth out the heart to resolve, to signalize these deliverances, when received, with suitable returns of praise. Faith in•luenceth him with this purpose in the very praying for them. Here take these conclusions.
1. That which puts a man upon seeking deliverance, is a desire to obtain it. The end of Desire in man, is to instigate him to the pursuit of his Object; and it gives rise to all his rational actions. Now desire is raised by the consideration of the goodness of the Object, and his want of it, and this is the spring of all his endeavours to compass it; it will not let him lie still, but pricks him forward to the use of means, Prov. 18.1.