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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 2: Ular Application, the best way of teaching. DOCTRINE II.
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5. It requires courage also. We have the corruption of men to deal with, and may expect, when we have done our best, to meet with hard entertainment; the lusts of men are not easily opposed, ••t are apt to rise up against counsels & reproofs; how did Asa, though a good man, entertain the Prophet? 2 Chron. 16.10. And see, Jer. 1.17, 18. Ezek. 2.6, 7. And they most need, that can least bear.
6. It also calls for fidelity. We must be faithful to God, and to men too, whose everlasting concerns are interested in our applying to them, with whom we must deal plain and home, Isa. 58.1. All which things show how much is required to the right discharge of this duty.
6. It also calls for fidelity. We must be faithful to God, and to men too, whose everlasting concerns are interested in our applying to them, with whom we must deal plain and home, Isa. 58.1. All which things shew how much is required to the right discharge of this duty.
USE II. To direct us how we may approve our selves for the best bearers of the Word of God. Teaching and Hearing are correlates, and from the Duty on one part, we may argue to the Duty on the other. Would we then be profitable hearers?