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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. To the Children of God, who are under any falls, and God is using means to recover you, take this advice; Consider,
1. God is specially dishonoured by your falls. The Sins of his Children give greatest occasion of the blaspheming of his Name: if you fall, and wound your profession, you open the mouths of the ungodly: and you sin against more of Gods goodness and singular kindness than others.
2. You can in no other way glorify God in this case. If you do not stoop, and take shame to your selves, you cannot recover the dishonour you have done him by your fall: there is no other way to rise, and therefore till it come to this, you do but wallow in your filth.
3. It is Gods singular love to you, that he useth ⟨p. 466⟩these means with you for your recovery. It is the fruit of his everlasting love, and in it he pursues that promise▪