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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 III. Let it be to exhort us that we do not put God upon this course. Force him not to proceed against us in severity. Consider,
1. There is a way which is more suited to man. I mean, which mans frame points him to. Man is made a reasonable Creature, and ought to hearken to reason; why should he forsake that, and carry himself like an Horse? God pleads, Isa. 46.8. And God shows us the way in his Word and Ordinances.
1. There is a way which is more suited to man. I mean, which mans frame points him to. Man is made a reasonable Creature, and ought to hearken to reason; why should he forsake that, and carry himself like an Horse? God pleads, Isa. 46.8. And God shews us the way in his Word and Ordinances.
2. This is the way to escape rods. God calls this severe course, his strange work, Isa. 28.21. Not merely because he is a God of mercy, and delighteth not to grieve us; but because it is a strange thing that we should put him upon it: so that if we would comply with his counsels, we might prevent blows.
2. This is the way to escape rods. God calls this severe course, his •trange work, Isa. 28.21. Not meerly because he is a God of mercy, and delighteth not to grieve us; but because it is a strange thing that we should put him upon it: so that if we would comply with his counsels, we might prevent blows.