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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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1. Let it call them that are young now to seek God. Oh that Children would be persuaded to Remember their Creator in the days of their youth. You think there is no such hast, it looks like a work too rigid and severe for you to mind, you are loth to forgo your vain company, and ma• mirth; but do not rashly reject the motion that is now made to you. What a comfortable thing would it be to see young folks in good earnest setting themselves to seek and to serve God? What a token would it be that God hath mercy in reserve for a sinful Land? Children, you are our hope, and you are our fear: how cheerfully should we leave the world; could we but see you in good earnest enquiring after the Lord, and devoting your selves to him? How would it remove those sad reflections that are sometimes ready to sink us? How glad should we be to see good hopes, that when we are gone, you will stand up for Christ and his ways; and that we shall meet you in the Great Day at his Right hand? Let me address you in his words, 1 Chron 28.9. My Son, know thou the God of thy Father, and serve him with a perfect heart, and willing mind; if thou seek him, he will be found of thee, but if thou forsake him, he will cast thee off for ever: To move you, Consider▪
1. Let it call them that are young now to seek God. Oh that Children would be perswaded to Remember their Creator in the dayes of their youth. You think there is no such hast, it looks like a work too rigid and severe for you to mind, you are loth to forgo your vain company, and ma• mirth; but do not rashly reject the motion that is now made to you. What a comfortable thing would it be to see young folks in good earnest setting themselves to seek and to serve God? What a token would it be that God hath mercy in reserve for a sinful Land? Children, you are our hope, and you are our fear: how chearfully should we leave the world; could we but see you in good earnest enquiring after the Lord, and devoting your selves to him? How would it remove those sad reflections that are sometimes ready to sink us? How glad should we be to see good hopes, that when we are gone, you will stand up for Christ and his ways; and that we shall meet you in the Great Day at his Right hand? Let me address you in his words,