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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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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.
4. The man cannot be happy unless he holds on in this way to the end, he must keep in it, and not forsake it, but follow it. The Crown is hung up at the Goal, and •e must run to that, Rev. 2.10. If a man be set in a right path, and after that he leaves i•, he will be bewildered and lost, Gal. 5.7. Luk. 9 ult.
4. The man cannot be happy unless he holds on in this way to the end, he must keep in it, and not forsake it, but follow it. The Crown is hung up at the Goal, and •e must run to that, Rev. 2.10. If a man be set in a right path, and after that he leaves i•, he will be bewildred and lost, Gal. 5.7.