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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. You are born strangers to God, and if you so die, you are undone for ever. You derive from the cursed stock of fallen Adam, of whom it is said, 1 Cor. 15.22. In Adam all die; you are Children of wrath by nature, Eph. 2.3. The Guilt of the great Transgression lieth on you, for which you are condemned to everlasting destruction. You are enemies, you are afar off from God, and if you do not get out of this condition, and get into Christ before you are taken away, God will destroy you for ever, Psal. 73.27. You must be New born, if ever you inherit the Kingdom, Joh. 3.3. Your Covenant interest, your Baptism, your Parents piety, all your Gospel privileges will not save you; it will not avail that God is your fathers God, if he be not your God too.
3. You are born strangers to God, and if you so dy, you are undone for ever. You derive from the cursed stock of fallen Adam, of whom it is said, 1 Cor. 15.22. In Adam all dy; you are Children of wrath by nature, Eph. 2.3. The Guilt of the great Transgression lyeth on you, for which you are condemned to everlasting destruction. You are enemies, you are afar off from God, and if you do not get out of this condition, and get into Christ before you are taken away, God will destroy you for ever, Psal. 73.27. You must be New born, if ever you inherit the Kingdom, Joh. 3.3. Your Covenant interest, your Baptism, your Parents piety, all your Gospel priviledges will not save you; it will not avail that God is your fathers God, if he be not your God too.