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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. Keep up the evidence of your interest in this God as yours. He that can say as the Apostle, 2 Tim. 1.12 I know whom I have believed, &c. Will find nothing able to interrupt his rejoicing; to be able to say, this one thing I know, that God is my po•tion, will revive the heart under its greatest burdens, and put new songs into the mouth of a Child of God: Lose this hold, and you are gone; how shall he rejoice in the Lord, who hath made it a doubt whether he be his God or no?
2. Keep up the evidence of your interest in this God as yours. He that can say as the Apostle, 2 Tim. 1.12 I know whom I have believed, &c. Will find nothing able to interrupt his rejoycing; to be able to say, this one thing I know, that God is my po•tion, will revive the heart under its greatest burdens, and put new songs into the mouth of a Child of God: Lose this hold, and you are gone; how shall he rejoyce in the Lord, who hath made it a doubt whether he be his God or no?
3▪ Be ever looking to the fullness that is in him, or what he is to those whose God he is. Be ever acquainting your selves with your object; the more you know his name, the more will you trust in him, Psa. 9.10. And consequently the more will you rejoice, for it is the joy of faith. Often look over the Inventory of your portion, & you will therein find enough to employ your joy to the utmost latitude of it.
3▪ Be ever looking to the fulness that is in him, or what he is to those whose God he is. Be ever acquainting your selves with your object; the more you know his name, the more will you trust in him,