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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.
3. When time is done, and you would seek God, he will not be found. Whiles you have been minding unprofitable things, your opportunity hath been Stealing away from you irrecoverably, and when you come to be on the brink of time, and your Soul ready to fleet into an unchangeable state, you will then Mourn, Prov. 5.11. And what a doleful outcry will it be, to hear a despairing Sinner in his passage, roaring out, Call time again, and wishing, Oh that I had one of those Sabbaths that I despised, one of those hours to seek God in, which I trifled away in vanity, had I all the gold and pearls in the world, I would give them for it, but it is now too la•e; Oh that you were wise, that you understood this!
3. When time is done, and you would seek God, he will not be found. Whiles you have been minding unprofitable things, your opportunity hath been Stealing away from you irrecoverably, and when you come to be on the brink of time, and your Soul ready to fleet into an unchangeable state, you will then Mourn, Prov. 5.11. And what a doleful outcry will it be, to hear a desparing Sinner in his passage, roaring out, Call time again, and wishing, Oh that I had one of those Sabbaths that I despised, one of those hours to seek God in, which I trifled away in vanity, had I all the gold and pearls in the world, I would give them for it, but it is now too la•e; Oh that you were wise, that you understood this!
USE. II. Let it be an awakening call to us all to Redeem our time, by setting our selves speedily to seek God. And to move us hereto, Consider,