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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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4. We have but this time of life to do it in. God hath limited the whole opportunity of a treaty with Sinners hither: What said Christ to those Jews that despised him, Joh. 8.21. Ye shall seek me, and die in your sins. This life is mans probation time, for another. You have but one life to work in, take heed then that you do not let it go before your work be done: God will not give you a second life to try over again, if you spend this away prodigally, though ⟨p. 321⟩you should repent never so bitterly of it, and promise never so fairly; he will bid you to remember you had a time, but you regarded it not.
4. We have but this time of life to do it in. God hath limited the whole opportunity of a treaty with Sinners hither: What said Christ to those Jews that despised him, Joh. 8.21. Ye shall seek me, and dy in your sins. This life is mans probation time, for another. You have but one life to work in, take heed then that you do not let it go before your work be done: God will not give you a second life to try over again, if you spend this away prodigally, though ⟨p. 321⟩you should repent never so bitterly of it, and promise never so fairly; he will bid you to remember you had a time, but you regarded it not.
5. This time will soon be done. The shortness of life is that of which all complain, though but few rightly improve the consideration; there is indeed through Grace, time enough, if well husbanded, to lay up store in for time to come: However, it is but a little while, a few days will sum up, and put a conclusion to it. See how the Word of God comments upon life's brevity, Job. 14.1