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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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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?
1. We ought carefully to hearken to, and get acquainted ⟨p. 432⟩with the Doctrines of Religion. To be well informed in the great truths of the Word of God: And they that are negligent in this respect, will never make good proficiency in any thing else. Those that are not careful to furnish themselves with knowledge, are never like to be firm, sixth, stable in the things of God. The Apostle joins these together, grow in grace and knowledge, &c. 2 Pet. 3.18.