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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 5: Every true believer is compassed with mercy. DOCTRINE V.
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.
3. The bottom design of this mercy is to conduct […] to it. The special Mercy of God applies it ••lf to the Elect, either before faith, in making ••em believers; and hither belongs all that is done […] them by God, till such time as they are Effectually called, but I pass this: Or after they are ••ited to Christ by faith, to which are to be reckoned ⟨p. 572⟩all those things that are done for the making them ready for, and bringing them into the Kingdom of Glory; that being the Inheritance of which they are made heirs by Adoption, Heb. 2.10. Hence all the effects of Providence are to be judged of, by the respect they bear to this, and their operation to bring it about.
3. The bottom design of this mercy is to conduct 〈…〉 to it. The special Mercy of God applies it ••lf to the Elect, ei•her before faith, in making ••em b•lievers; and hither belongs all that is done 〈…〉 them by God, till such time as they are Effe••ually called, but I pass this: Or after they are ••ited to Christ by faith, to which are to be reckoned ⟨p. 572⟩all those things that are done for the making them ready for, and bringing them into the Kingdom of Glory; that being the Inheritance of which they are made heirs by Adoption, Heb. 2.10. Hence all the effects of Providence are to be judged of, by the respect they bear to this, and their operation to bring it about.