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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 3: To go no further in Gods Service than forced is an ill sign. DOCTRINE III.
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.
USE I. For INFORMATION in two particulars.
1 Learn hence a reason why a Professing People meet with so many Judicial Providences. We are apt to wonder how it comes; but let us observe;
1. Very often the bigger part of such a people are carnal. It is our Saviours remark, Mat. 20.16. Many are called, but few chosen. And see Rom. 2.28.9.5. The Visible Church are a mixed Company; and as there are always some, so often, more tares than wheat growing in that field; they take on them the name, but have not the heart of Goo• people, Sin hath dominion in them, and ⟨p. 489⟩let them seem never so zealous, yet it will be eve• inclining them to Apostasy.
1. Very often the bigger part of such a people are •arnal. It is our Saviours remark, Mat. 20.16. Many are called, but few chosen. And see Rom. 2.28.9.5. The Visible Church are a mixt Company; and as there are always some, so often, more tares than wheat growing in that field; they take on them the name, but have not the heart of Goo• people, Sin hath dominion in them, and