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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 What is the influence this faith hath into the Obedience to produce it?
A. We may take an account of it in the following particulars.
1. Faith it self is one piece of Gospel Obedience. It is indeed the great Gospel duty. The habit is wrought in us without our co operation, we are merely passive in it; but the acts of it are exerted by us, though not without Divine Co operation: and they are requi•ed of us in the Gospel: there is a Command for i•, 1 Joh 3 23.
1. Faith it self is one piece of Gospel Obedience. It is indeed the great Gospel duty. The habit is wrought in us without our co operation, we are meerly passive in it; but the acts of it are exerted by us, though not without Divine Co operation: and they are requi•ed of us in the Gospel: there is a Command for i•, 1 Joh 3 23.