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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.
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6. But when once they are made tractable, the controversy ⟨p. 463⟩is at an end. The great controversy between God, and sinful man, under the means, is who shall stoop he or they: he will not, his honour is concerned in it, and so they must, if ever they obtain his favour. Now therefore they give him his glory, and he will lift up the light of his countenance upon them: God himself declares this good issue, Levit. 26.40, 41, 42. Here then lies the great obstacle: it is not their sins, but their obstinacy under them, that keeps up the wall of separation, and if that be removed the way is open, and he will show them his Salvations.
6. But when once they are made tractable, the controversy ⟨p. 463⟩is at an end. The great controversy between God, and sinful man, under the means, is who shall stoop he or they: he will not, his honour is concerned in it, and so they must, if ever they obtain his favour. Now therefore they give him his glory, and he will lift up the light of his countenance upon them: God himself declares this good issue, Levit. 26.40, 41, 42. Here then lies the great obstacle: it is not their sins, but their obstinacy under them, that keeps up the wall of separation, and if that be removed the way is open, and he will shew them his Salvations.
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