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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. That it is in compliance with these terms that we obtain pardon and salvation. There is no other encouragement to hope for it. It is from Christ ⟨p. 441⟩that we must have the Grace to comply, but it is in this way that he saves us; he gives grace in order to glory, Psal. 84 11. Hence all Unbelievers, and unholy persons are excluded from this.
USE I. To discover and reprove the false hopes of many: Who almost, but nourisheth in himself an expectation of salvation? but it is to be feared the most do cheat their own souls, and will be miserably disappointed, viz.
1. Those that hope to be pardoned and saved, but never enquire after the way of it. They have heard of Redemption and Salvation by Christ, and take up with that, and think themselves safe: they never ask the way, nor think how they may come by a title to Christ and his salvation: they never asked that question, Acts 16.30. What shall I do to be saved? but presume that salvation will come in course, let them live as they list; but know it, Christ's Redemption profiteth none but those to whom it is applied, in which they are made to go in the way of it; with which if you comply not, you will perish.