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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 3: Divine Teachings are to guide us in our way. DOCTRINE III.
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2. Hence the promise is to be claimed only upon the performance of the Condition. For, though the promise be firm, yet it is Relative: it stands or falls according to the tenor of it; if we fail of doing that to which the promise is connected, God is faithful to his word, and there is no falsehood in the promise, though we never receive the good of it; there is therefore expressly or implicitly contained a threatening with the promise, Isa. 1.19, 20. Rom. 8.13.
2. Hence the promise is to be claimed only upon the performance of the Condition. For, though the promise be firm, yet it is Relative: it stands or falls according to the tenour of it; if we fail of doing that to which the promise is connected, God is faithful to his word, and there is no falshood in the promise, though we never receive the good of it; there is therefore expresly or implicitly contained a threatning with the promise, Isa. 1.19, 20. Rom. 8.13.
3. Hence this performance is the very way to enjoy the performance of the promise. It comes in as a necessary medium, which is Metaphorically called a way, because we come to be happy, by our conformity to that which is required of us in order to it: and the want of this will make us to fail of that, Gal. 6.16.