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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.
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3. Look to Christ for his Spirit to put this trust into you. It is above the power of your natural abilities, but he that offers the benefit, and makes the condition, withal tendereth the help and the Grace whereby you may be enabled to comply with it. When therefore he invites you thus to come, turn it into supplication, and say, Draw me; when he bids you to believe, say, Help mine unbelief; and wait on him in diligent using the means in which he is wont to come and bless.
USE II. Let it put us upon trying our selves to which of these companies are belong: Here are […] sorts of men, and we shall be numbered to one […] them, and it concerns us to know which, for,
USE II. Let it put us upon trying our selves to which of these companies are belong: Here are 〈…〉 sorts of men, and we shall be numbred to one 〈…〉 them, and it concerns us to know which, for,
1. The matter it self is of Infinite moment. If it were a point of indifferency, this enquiry would be superfluous; these two put the difference between the subjects of eternal misery, & everlasting blessedness; the difference is as much as is between light and darkness, heaven and hell; surely then it cannot be sat• to be ignorant of this matter.
1. The matter it self is of Infinite moment. If it were a point of indifferency, this enquity would be superfluous; these two put the difference between the subjects of eternal misery, & everlasting blessedness; the difference is as much as is between light and darkness, heaven and hell; surely then it cannot be sat to be ignorant of this matter.