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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: Faith the foundation of true Obedience. 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.
Faith the foundation of true Obedience. DOCTRINE III.
Faith in God is the foundation of all true Obedience unto him. Doubtless the Psalmist here opposeth the Wicked and the Godly: Now the Godly […] is one that fears God and keeps his Commandments; but is in our Text called one that •••steth in the Lord; and thereby we are pointed to the root from whence his Godliness doth proceed, viz. That trust which the Scriptures call, faith. The word signifieth to hope, and to rely upon one with confidence. And the Object of this is Jehovah, which is an incommunicable name of God, and shows that he alone is thus to be confided in. Here two enquiries may be made.
FAith in God is the foundation of all true Obedience unto him. Doubtless the Psalmist here oppos••h the Wicked and the Godly: Now the Godly 〈…〉 is one that fears God and keeps his Commandmen•s; but is in our Text called one that •••steth in the Lord; and thereby we are pointed to the root from whence his Godliness doth proceed, viz. That trust which the Scriptures call, faith. The word signifieth to hope, and to rely upon one with confidence. And the Object of this is Jehovah, which is an incommunicable name of God, and shews that he alone is thus to be confided in. Here two enquiries may be made.
1. What is that faith, or trust in God, which is the foundation of all true Obedience?