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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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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,
1. Be sensible of your natural hardness and obstinacy. See and feel that there is this cursed nature in you, which resolutely withstands all good, & opposeth all the means of Grace. Rom. 7 15. &c.
2. Take heed of hearkening to carnal reasonings. These will stir up our pride, tell us it will be a reproach to us, or very irksome and troublesome, obstruct our present delights, and a thousand pleas it will make.
2. Take heed of hearkning to carnal reasonings. These will stir up our pride, tell us it will be a reproach to us, or very irksome and troublesome, obstruct our present delights, and a thousand pleas it will make.