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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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2. God hath declared concerning some that their finding time shall be over in this life. He may wait and strive longer or shorter as he pleaseth; and though we have no ordinary Rule, certainly to determine it to persons, that they are so left, yet there are some▪ and that should make all fearful of trifling with, and putting of him off; we have such threatenings▪ Prov. 1.28 Joh. 8.21. Hence that warning, Heb. 3.7 Gods invitations are all for the present, their date is, To Day: and whether he will repeat them another day, is with him. Esau repented too late, Heb 12.17. And how awful a word was spoken to those Jews, who rejected the Salvation offered them? Act▪ 13.46. Now, there are some awful symptoms of this.
2. God hath declared concerning some that their finding time shall be over in this life. He may wait and strive longer or shorter as he pleaseth; and though we have no ordinary Rule, certainly to determine it to persons, that they are so left, yet there are some▪ and that should make all fearful of trifling with, and putting of him off; we have such threatnings▪ Prov. 1.28 Joh. 8.21. Hence that warning, Heb. 3.7 Gods invitations are all for the present, their date is, To Day: and whether he will repeat them another day, is with him. Esau repented too late, Heb 12.17. And how awful a word was spoken to those Jews, who rejected the Salvation offered them? Act▪ 13.46. Now, there are some awful symptoms of this.