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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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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.
3. Interpret all the means that God useth, to be his kindness. Though they seem never so harsh, yet take no prejudice at them, but believe that it is good for you, that he so deals with you: that if he had let you alone, and suffered you to go on, you had perished: see his good will in reproofs, warnings, strokes of Providence: if we could but be reconciled to Gods dealings, it would meeken our spirits into a gentle and pliable frame.
3. Interpret all the means that God useth, to be his kindness. Though they seem never so harsh, yet take no prejudice at them, but believe that it is good for you, that he so deals with you: that if he had let you alone, and suffered you to go on, you had perished: see his good will in reproofs, warnings, stroaks of Providence: if we could but be reconciled to Gods dealings, it would meeken our spirits into a gentle and pliable frame.
4 Beg of God to subdue your contumacy. See that it is beyond your power to get the conquest over it; and carry it to him who is able to cure you of it, to mortify it, to surprise and demolish all the ⟨p. 467⟩