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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.
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.
2. As long as he is out of the way, every step he takes leads to destruction. There are but two ways, one leads to life, the other is the path to ruin; till then he gets into the right way again, he is pursuing his own undoing. Every man is in some way, every thought, word and deed is a step in that way, all the man doth hath a tendency to some end, and what tends not to happiness, must to misery; The wages of sin is death, Rom. 6.23. Every man in this world is laying up treasure for another; if not in heaven, it is in hell, which is the woeful end of the Sinners way.
2. As long as he is out of the way, every step he takes leads to destruction. There are but two ways, one leads to life, the other is the path to ruine; till then he gets into the right way again, he is pursuing his own undoing. Every man is in some way, every thought, word and deed is a step in that way, all the man doth hath a tendency to some end, and what tends not to happiness, must to misery; The wages of sin is death, Rom. 6.23. Every man in this world is laying up treasure for another; if not in heaven, it is in hell, which is the woful end of the Sinners way.
3. That he cannot put himself into the way again, but must be brought into it. He lost it by his own folly, but if ever he recover it again, God must ⟨p. 438⟩put him into it, Hos. 13.9. As he knows it not, so he hath no power to get into it: Such is his impotency and enmity; that he cannot take a step in it; till that be removed, Rom. 8.7. And none but God can change it; how should a dead man go? Eph 2.1.