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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. Thus alone will these means be profitable for us: A thing is no further beneficial than as the end of it is advanced; now it is eternal life we are all concerned for, and there is but one way to it, and these means are for our help in this way; and only when they so help us, do they profit us.
2. Thus alone will these means be profitable for us: A thing is no further beneficial than as the end of it is advanced; now it is eternal life we are all conc•rned for, and there is but one way to it, and these means are for our help in this way; and only when they so help us, do they profit us.
3. If therefore we neglect this, we shall one day repent that ever we were under them. How proud soever men may be of the mountain of the Lord, yet when reckoning day comes, and they shall then be charged, that they sat all their lives under Gospel teaching, but took never a step in this way, it will be a sad item, and none more terrible.
For Direction.