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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.
3. Their long living in their sins. They have long driven this trade; they began in their youth▪ and have followed it to their ripe and declining years; this hath been their course all along, and now they are habituated by custom, and what saith God, Jer. 13 23. Can the Ethiopian, &c but though by this you have rendered your Conversion and Salvation more difficult in respect of the Subject of it, yet it is not hard to Gods Omnipotency, we have the case represented. Isa. 57.17, 18. Suppose you have made your heart as an adamant, yet God can give you a new and a […] one, Ezek. 11.19.
3. Their long living in their sins. They have long driven this trade; they began in their youth▪ and have followed it to their ripe and declining years; this hath been their course all along, and now they are habituated by custom, and what saith God, Jer. 13 23. Can the Ethiopian, &c but though by this you have rendred your Conversion and Salvation more difficult in respect of the Subject of it, yet it is not hard to Gods Omnipotency, we have the case represented. Isa. 57.17, 18. Suppose you have made your heart as an adamant, yet God can give you a new and a 〈…〉 one, Ezek. 11.19.
4. Their resisting of the means of Grace. If upon the first report of Salvation they had embraced it, there had been hope, but they have been brought up under a faithful Ministry, and under careful Parents, who often told them of their sin and danger, who solemnly warned, and importunately entreated them to think of it, and seek to God for mercy, but they despised all; and can there be any hope for them? Truly the case is lamentable, but yet not desperate. God can bring such a Prodigal home to himself, and make him return to his father, and if he do, he will […]