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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.
2. The Invitation given us to come to him for it. He hath commended himself to us as such an one for this very end; he hath told us what he is in himself, and what he hath to bestow upon us, if we come to him for it; & useth arguments to persuade us so to do: he offers it, and invites men to accept of it, Isa. 55 1 Rev 22.17 Isa 45 22. Complains of mens wilfulness in refusing to come, Matth. 23.37. Luk. 19.41. And expostulates with men, as if he would break their hearts with kindness, and take no denial of them, Ezek. 33 11.
2. The Invitation given us to come to him for it. He hath commended himself to us as such an one for this very end; he hath told us what he is in him•elf, and what he hath to bestow upon us, if we come to him for it; & useth arguments to perswade us so to do: he offers it, and invites men to accept of it, Isa. 55 1 Rev 22.17 Isa 45 22. Complains of mens wilfulness in refusing to come, Matth. 23.37. Luk. 19.41. And expostulates with men, as if he would break their hearts with kindness, and take no denial of them, Ezek. 33 11.
4. The way in which we come to place this trust in God is by Christ. This is the only Evangelical way of believing, nor can fallen man in any other way rightly place his trust on God: for,