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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
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. Wherein it appears that all the rewards of Obedience are fruits of this mercy?
A. We may come at it in the following considerations.
1. There is a reward promised to the Obedience of Gods Children. There are not only great and precious promises made in the Gospel to the people of God, but there are the things mentioned to which they are connected; and these are proposed by the Spirit of God for their encouragement in serving him. God would have them to know that they serve a good Master, and would have them to animate themselves by the contemplation and faith thereof. Thus did Moses by respecting the recompense of reward, Heb. 11.26. Hence such encouragements, Gal. 6.9. Isa. 3 19. Rom. 2.7. 1 Cor. 15. ult.
1. There is a reward promised to the Obedience of Gods Children. There are not only great and precious promises made in the Gospel to the people of God, but there are the things mentioned to which they are connected; and these are proposed by the Spirit of God for their encouragement in serving him. God would have them to know that they serve a good Master, and would have them to animate themselves by the contemplation and faith thereof. Thus did Moses by respecting the recompenss of reward,