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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. 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▪ Psal. 89.30. &c▪
4. And he will bring you to this at last. You shall stoop before he hath done with you; and for unregenerate Sinners, if they be contumacious, he may leave them; but as to his Children, he will restore them, and he will do it in this way; and if these means will not do, he will find those that shall. For direction in general,
4. And he wi•l bring you to this at last. You shall stoop before he hath done with you; and for unregenerate Sinners, if they be contumacious, he may leave them; but as to his Children, he will restore them, and he will do it in this way; and if these means will not do, he will find those that shall. For direction in general,