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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.
2 This is your proper season to seek God in; and whether you shall ever have another you know not. You have all advantages now, but how long you shall have them, God only can tell. You are now alive, but you know not how soon you shall go to the Grave. Do you not see that young ones die as well as the old? Go to the Sepulchres, measure the monuments, ask who lies here, and you shall find ⟨p. 345⟩a multitude who lived not to so many years as you have: and now reflect and ask, Have I found God? Is my peace made? If I should now die, have I made sure of a Jesus to receive my Soul? Now Gods word is Preached to you, now Godly Parents and Friends call upon and counsel you: God knows how long it will be so. You are not now encumbered with the troublesome cares of this world: you are now in your strength, and do not know what the Evil days mean, of which you must say, you have no pleasure in them. Oh! that you knew your time, if you let it slip, you will not find it again.
2 This is your proper season to seek God in; and whether you shall ever have another you know not. You have all advantages now, but how long you shall have them, God only can tell. You are now alive, but you know not how soon you shall go to the Grave. Do you not see that young ones dy as well as the old? Go to the Sepulchers, measure the •onuments, ask who lies here, and you shall find ⟨p. 345⟩a multitude who lived not to so many years as you have: and now reflect and ask, Have I found God? Is my peace made? If I should now dy, have I made sure of a Jesus to receive my Soul? Now Gods word is Preached to you, now Godly Parents and Friends call upon and counsel you: God knows how long it will be so. You are not now encumbred with the troublesome cares of this world: you are now in your strength, and do not know what the Evil days mean, of which you must say, you have no pleasure in them. Oh! that you knew your time, if you let it slip, you will not find it again.