N00802:969

The truly blessed man

Name: The truly blessed man
Author: Samuel Willard

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]

Samuel Willard 1640–1707printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700

652, [4] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo) · 180k words · Evans 965 · Wing W2298

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Sermon › Doctrine 3: God to be sought in a finding time. DOCTRINE. III.

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5. And there are times when after a great while he cometh ag••n. The Spirit withdraws, and mens hearts grow hard, but afterwards sometimes he comes again before he utterly giveth them up; they have awakenings and remorses: and now he is also near.

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4. When God brings his Judgments on a people:

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And here,

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1. These Judgments, whether public or personal, are Testimonies of Gods displeasure at men for neglecting to seek him. He herein witnesseth his righteous anger at them; and the reason is because they have not sought him, but something else instead of him,

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The book

Title as printed

Author

Samuel Willard 1640–1707

Printer

B. Green

Bookseller

Michael Perry

Year

1700

Size

652, [4] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)

Words

179,806

Catalogue

Evans 965 · Wing W2298

Text

Evans-TCP N00802

Passages

2,023

Sections

Title page

Reformers309

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Westminster Assembly24

Evangelicals36