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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
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. Mens untractableness wholly frustrates this design: it is the very nature of it to do so, Jer. 8.5. God faith to Sinners, turn, why will you die? but they say, there is no hope, for we have loved strangers, and after them we will go: this is that stiff neck, that iron s•ew that will not bow, this is the reason why sinners are not gathered to Christ, Matth. 23.37.
2. Mens untractableness wholly frustrates this design: it is the very nature of it to do so, Jer. 8.5. God faith to Sinners, turn, why will you dy? but they say, there is no hope, for we have loved strangers, and after them we will go: this is that stiff neck, that iron s•ew that will not bow, this is the reason why sinners are not gathered to Christ, Matth. 23.37.
3. Men hereby prevent their own good. Whiles this obstinacy remains, men keep out of the way of peace; how doth God expostulate with them on this account? Isa. 48.18. O that they had hearkened, &c. God backs his calls and counsels with gracious promises, to allure sinners after him, but they despise their own mercies.
3. Men hereby prevent their own good. Whiles this obstinacy remains, men keep out of the way of peace; how doth God expostulate with them on this account? Isa. 48.18. O that they had hearkned, &c. God backs his calls and counsels with gracious promises, to allure sinners after him, but they despise their own mercies.