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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.
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.
1. That God hath in his Word, limited the day of Grace to this life. The Word of God is that by which we are to acquaint our selves with his will; and there we are assured that the day of Grace is limited. When our Text saith, they shall pray in a ⟨p. 314⟩finding time, it infers that there will be a tim• when there is no finding of him; and of th• same import is that in Isa. 55.6. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Hence he may be sought too late, when there is no finding him, Prov. 1 23. Nay the Scripture hath expressly limited the time to this life, Psal. 6.5. Isa. 38.18. And elsewhere; which intimate, that the time of Glorifying God by making our peace with him, will then be over; or that the work of providing for eternity will then be at an end; and this is the force of the wise mans argument, when he urgeth the husbanding the present season of life, Eccles. 9 10. There is no work, nor wisdom, nor device, nor knowledge in the grave whither thou goest.
1. That God hath in his Word, limited the day of Grace to this life. The Word of God is that by which we are to acquaint our selves with his will; and there we are assured that the day of Grace is limited. When our Text saith, they shall pray in a ⟨p. 314⟩finding time, it infers that there will be a tim• when there is no finding of him; and of th• same import is that in Isa. 55.6. Seek the Lord while he may be found. Hence he may be sought too late, when there is no finding him,