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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.
4. By setting before us the danger of disobedience. Faith hath an eye also on the threatenings; why else doth God lay them before his people, but to enliven his fear in them, Rom. 8.13. Heb. 12.14. This awaken• us to our work, and makes us to rouse up when we grow dull; 2 Cor. 5.11. He believes that God would accomplish his word of threatening as well as his promise; he looks upon him as a jealous God ▪ & counts it a fearful thing to fall into his hands, Heb. 10.31. Jobs fear excited him, Chap. 31.23. And faith animated that fear.
4. By setting before us the danger of disobedience. Faith hath an eye also on the threatnings; why else doth God lay them before his people, but to enliven his fear in them, Rom. 8.13. Heb. 12.14. This awaken• us to our work, and makes us to rouse up when we grow dull; 2 Cor. 5.11. He believes that God would accomplish his word of threatning as well as his promise; he looks upon him as a jealous God ▪ & counts it a fearful thing to fall into his hands, Heb. 10.31. Jobs fear excited him, Chap. 31.23. And faith animated that fear.