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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.
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,
1. We are all of us strangers to him in our natural state. Eph. 2.12. The Apostasy hath made an infinite distance between God and Sinners. Man goeth away from God by every Sin, for it is of the nature of Sin to depart from him, Psal. 73.27. Hence the Sinners of the Gentiles are said to be afar off, Act. 2.39.
2. If we get not an interest in him, we must perish for ever. Mans misery took its date from his loosing of God, and his happiness begins upon his finding ⟨p. 320⟩of him; nor will he ever be perfectly blessed till he cometh to that complete and uninterrupted Communion with him, which is reserved for glory▪ Every distance from God is so far a misery, and they that regard it not now, will find it to their cost, when they shall hear that fearful word, Depart; pronounced upon them: and there is no other way to remedy our misery, but by the getting of this distance removed; & God reconciled to us through Christ▪ he must, of our enemy be our God, or we are undone.
2. If we get not an interest in him, we must perish for ever. Mans misery took its date from his loosing of God, and his happiness begins upon his finding