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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. This faith also prompts us to our Obedience, it is a Grace that stirs us up to the faithful Service of God; and that it doth;
1. By showing us that it is the only way to obtain the promise. Faith entertains the promise as laid down in the New Covenant; and so it tells us that if we hope to inherit the promises, we must comply with the terms of the Covenant; and it dares no otherwise to secure them to us, 1 King. 2. begin. 1 Chron. 28.9. Faith improves the promises, not to nourish negligence, but to animate our diligence, 2 Cor. 7.1.
1. By shewing us that it is the only way to obtain the promise. Faith entertains the promise as laid down in the New Covenant; and so it tells us that if we hope to inherit the promises, we must comply with the terms of the Covenant; and it dares no otherwise to secure them to us, 1 King. 2. begin. 1 Chron. 28.9. Faith improves the promises, not to nourish negligence, but to animate our diligence, 2 Cor. 7.1.
2 By displaying to us the obligations that are laid on […] to Obedience. It is by faith that we discover the infinite love of God to us, in choosing us from Eternity to be partakers in his mercy, and thereby putting a vast difference between us and others; the wonderful love of Christ in engaging in, and going through the work of Redemption, so satisfying the justice of God for us, purchasing us out of the hands of the Law, and ransoming us from destruction, and laying in for us a glorious inheritance, and all that he might have a seed to serve him; hence that,