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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.
USE. I For Information in three particulars:
1. Here see Gods great kindness to those whom he favours with the means of Grace. It must needs be a great privilege, because the proper design of them is to guide men into the way of life. Hereby God opens a door of hope to men; for by pointing them to the way, and inviting them into it, he testifieth his good will to them, and the more because all the world do not share in this benefit; and they that have it deserve it no more than they that are without it: nor doth the Spirit afford his inward teachings, but in and with the Gospel dispensations, 2 Cor. 4.3. What thankfulness then doth this call for at our hands, whom God hath thus indulged! Take heed of undervaluing this precious privilege, lest we provoke God to take it from us David maketh a singular remark on this, Psal. 147.19, 20.
1. Here see Gods great kindnes• to those whom he favours with the means of Grace. It must needs be a great priviledge, because the proper design of them is to guide men into the way of life. Hereby God opens a door of hope to men; for by pointing them to the way, and inviting them into it, he testifieth his good will to them, and the more because all the world do not share in this benefit; and they that have it deserve it no more than they that are without it: nor doth the Spi•it afford his inward teachings, but in and with the Gospel dispensations, 2 Cor. 4.3. What thankfulness then doth this call for at our hands, whom God hath thus indulged! Take heed of undervaluing this precious priviledge, lest we provoke God to take it from us David maketh a singular remark on this, Psal. 147.19, 20.