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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. If you will have these mercies, you must forsake your wickedness, and take up under the wings of Christ. God will not compound with wickedness, nor can there be any peace to the wicked, Isa 57. ult. These mercies are the peculiar privilege of Believers; they may be yours, though you have been wicked, but you must then renounce it, Isa. 55.7. Let ⟨p. 579⟩the wicked forsake his way, &c. Nor is it consistent with Gods Holiness that you should have it on any other terms; if you cannot comply with this, you renounce Gods mercies, and do what in you lies to cut off their hope of over enjoying them.
3. If you will have these mercies, you must forsake your wickedness, and take up under the wings of Christ. God will not compound with wickedness, nor can there be any peace to the wicked, Isa 57. ult. These mercies are the peculiar priviledge of Believers; they may be yours, though you have been wicked, but you must then renounce it, Isa. 55.7. Let ⟨p. 579⟩the wicked forsake his way, &c. Nor is it consistent with Gods Holiness that you should have it on any other terms; if you cannot comply with this, you renounce Gods mercies, and do what in you lies to cut off their hope of over enjoying them.
4. If you make not hast, these mercies will be withdrawn, and those sorrows will make a prey of you. Sorrows are your […], and you have reason to expect them every moment, the only benefit is, you now enjoy a day of grace, and are under a treaty of peace, in which mercy is offered you, if whiles this lasts, you comply, all shall be well; but if you neglect it, you provoke him to put an end to it, and then your hope is gone, mercy will be no more to be had,