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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.
5. By enabling us to wait for the reward, notwithstanding all the present discouragements that are in our way. Faith works in patience: faith entertains the promises and maketh […] of them, though it seeth them afar off ▪ and can live upon them, Heb. 11.13. It dares to trust in God, it saith the word is true, a God that cannot lye hath given it, who can give being to it, & will not forget▪ Thus it makes us willing to wait Gods time, and mean while confidently to hold on in our Obedience, nothing doubting of the recompense; and thus it supplies our Obedience.
5. By enabling us to wait for the reward, notwithstanding all the present discouragements that are in our way. Faith works in pati••ce: faith entertains the promises and maketh 〈…〉 of them, though it seeth them afar off ▪ and can live upon them, Heb. 11.13. It dares to trust in God, it saith the word is true, a God that cannot lye hath given it, who can give being to it, & will not forget▪ Thus it makes us willing to wait Gods time, and mean while confidently to hold on in our Obedience, nothing doubting of the recompense; and thus it supplies our Obedience.
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