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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. 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, Gen. 27. begin.
2. Their time may be over. If we should live, they may die, and then they are past hearing of us; they are liable to many casualties which we can neither foresee nor prevent. A sudden death may surprise them, which will not give us leave to drop one counsel upon them, or make one prayer over them.
2. Their time may be over. If we should live, they may dy, and then they are past hearing of us; they are liable to many casualties which we can neither foresee nor prevent. A sudden death may surprize them, which will not give us leave to drop one counsel upon them, or make one prayer over them.