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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. And he usually toucheth mens hearts at such times. Indeed it is a natural operation of Judgments to put men upon thoughtfulness; but the Spirit is wont to set in, and put such a people, at least many of them, upon enquiring after his mind, and to affect them with Convictions of sin, and fear of his Wrath. And this is a great advantage now to seek him.
5. If all this be neglected, he is hereby grievously incensed. It is an high provocation, and he now thinks of withdrawing, Hos. 5.15. Nay, sometimes it arrives at that, that because all means are ineffectual, and they grow worse by them, he declares resolutely to come at them in this way no more, but abandon them to destruction. Ezek. 24.13. And then what a woe •ase are they in?
5. If all this be neglected, he is hereby grievously incensed. It is an high provocation, and he now thinks of withdrawing, Hos. 5.15. Nay, sometimes it arrives at that, that because all means are ineffectual, and they grow worse by them, he declares resolutely to come at them in this way no more, but abandon them to destruction. Ezek. 24.13. And then what a wo •ase are they in?
USE I. For caution: Let none from the pr• mises conclude that his time is past. I know some troubled hearts are apt to be shaken by such awful truths, and the adversary is ready to set i and persuade them that their day is done, an