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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 1: Contumacy to be avoided if we would have true peace. DOCTRINE I.
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. Hence God cannot hold Communion with men, while under this defilement. As to Ungodly men, it is […] expressed, Psal. 5.4, 5. And as to the Children of God, who are received into Communion with him, such falls interrupt their fellowship and provoke God to withdraw, & get out of their sight; and that because of his Holiness, 2 Cor. 6.14.
2. Hence God cannot hold Communion with men, while under this defilement. As to Ungodly men, it is 〈…〉 exprest, Psal. 5.4, 5. And as to the Children of God, who are received into Communion with him, such falls interrupt their fellowship and provoke God to withdraw, & get out of their sight; and that because of his Holiness, 2 Cor. 6.14.
3. There is no other way for Sinners to enjoy, or Saints to recover this Communion but by Repentance. Whiles the cause abides, the effect is not like to cease; it was sin which brake the peace between ⟨p. 462⟩God and man, and while that reigns, there is no repairing i•; it is sin that makes God stand off from his Children; and whiles they hold that fast, they must expect that he will do so still, Josh. 7.12. Now the only way to break off from sin, is by Repentance: this therefore Gods calls for, and is the design of all the m••ns, Lam 3.40.