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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 3: God to be sought in a finding time. DOCTRINE. III.
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2. He hath provided sufficient to remove all the causes of distance between him and you. Let your Guilt be never so aggravated, yet in the complete Righteousness of Christ, there is abundant provision made, which cannot be out done by our sins: He can save to the uttermost, Heb. 7.25.
2. He hath provided sufficient to remove all the causes of distance between him and you. Let your Guilt be never so aggravated, yet in the compleat Righteousness of Christ, there is abundant provision made, which cannot be out done by our sins: He can save to the uttermost, Heb. 7.25.
3. And he will herein advance the glory of his Grace. How often doth he take an opportunity thus to do? he hath purposed to be admired in them that believe, 2 Thes. 1.10. And in this way will he promote that admiration; resolve then to seek his face, for the health of his countenance.
Conclu. 2. That the opportunity of thus finding God is limited to time. There are two ages of man, or a double state to which he is appointed, with respect to duration, viz Time and Eternity; the former whereof is limited, the latter boundless; the one will quickly come to an end, the other never; and where the former ends, the other begins. Time, in the general notion of it, is the boundary of the Creatures duration: and this may be considered generally with respect to the world, and so it begins with the first moment of the Creation, and shall last till the consummation of all things, i. e. the Day of Judgment; and all this while God will be to be found by some: there will be a Day of Grace, the Mediators Kingdom, in which a