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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.
3. That which encourageth us to trust in this Object, is,
1. The communicableness of this life to us. It is not enough to have an object in our eye, which enjoys a fullness of sufficiency in it self for it self; for unless ⟨p. 542⟩he hath a fullness communicable for the Creature, he may be happy himself, but that will never make us happy. Herein therefore God hath manifested his Alsufficiency to us, in that he hath enough for himself, and more than enough to spare for us. He is compared in his word to such things which have a fullness whereof they are communicative; to a fountain of living waters, Jer. 2.13. To the Sun, Psal. 84 11. And he is commended to us in his works of Efficiency in which his Sufficiency is imparted to the Creature, for the encouragement of our faith, Psal. 89.11, 12.
1. The communicableness of this life to us. It is not enough to have an object in our eye, which enjoys a fulness of sufficiency in it self for it self; for unless ⟨p. 542⟩he hath a fulness communicable for the Creature, he may be happy himself, but that will never make us happy. Herein therefore God hath manifested his Alsufficiency to us, in that he hath enough for himself, and more than enough to spare for us. He is compared in his word to such things which have a fulness whereof they are communicative; to a fountain of living waters, Jer. 2.13. To the Sun, Psal. 84 11