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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. It is now the time for it. This is a finding time: are they young? it is the best season for them to seek and find God in, Prov. 8.17. Hence that advice, Eccl. 12.1. You have now all advantages before you to pursue this business to effect, they enjoy the Gospel means; it is also the best opportunity to press them to this, whiles there are these helps to promote it you will never have a more convenient season.
2. This finding time may be gone before we are aware. It is very uncertain, whether if now we delay it, it will not slip by irrecoverably: for,
1. Our time may be past. Let us do as much good this way as we can, while we live, for when once we are dead, we shall be past doing, Eccles. 9.10. We resolve to speak to this person, and deal seriously with that other; but to morrow, or the next week; but our mouths are stopped ere then, and so our good thoughts perish: Isaac desired to bless his Son before he died, Gen. 27. begin.
1. Our time may be past. Let us do as much good this way as we can, while we live, for when once we are dead, we shall be past doing, Eccles. 9.10. We resolve to speak to this person, and deal seriously with that other; but to morrow, or the next week; but our mouths are stopt ere then, and so our good thoughts perish: Isaac desired to bless his Son before he died,