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A66111 The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard. Willard, Samuel, 1640-1707. 1700 (1700) Wing W2298; ESTC R30205 358,966 674

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the seas of increated inexhaustible goodness are met in him 2. Hence to enjoy him is perfect happiness He that hath God for his portion can want for nothing Psal 23. 1. There can be no perfect felicity in the fruition of other things for they have neither fulness nor sutableness in them to answer all the cravings of the soul but goodness it self cannot be defective in any point he that hath God hath all for God is all in all Psal 84. 11. He that can say God is mine can say all that is to be said to declare him happy 3 He is the Upright mans God He hath made himself over to every one that is Godly Psal 4. 3. He hath given to the believer a property in himself Isa 41 10. I am thy God and he is theirs for ever Psal 48 ult And they may say as Psal 67. 6. God even our own God shall bless us How full then must their joy be and there are these things in particular that they may glad themselves in 1. He hath loved them from eternity Jer 31. 3. For Effectual Calling is a certain fruit of that love God thought of and sat his heart upon them before the world was and what joy is there in this his love is better than life Psal 63. 3. If we are sure of this we are certain to share in all the happy fruits of it which are beyond computation if he loved us before time his love to us will outlast time And shall we not triumph in Everlasting Love 2. He hath converted them This is the first breaking forth of his love to them and if there be joy in heaven at the conversion of a Sinner Luk 15. 7 10. Shall not he himself rejoyce This is a joyful change indeed then was a Child born to God then was a Sinner made a Sain● a dead soul raised to life c. And can such an one but be glad 3. He hath pardoned them This accompanies Effectual Calling Rom. 8. 30. And this hath made them of miserable happy Context vers 1 2. The condemned Caitiff was going to Execution and had a pardon sent him the Sinner who was under the weight of all the Curses is delivered from them the prisoners of death is set at liberty the Sentence that was past upon him is revoked his peace is made he shall not dy but live and shall he not triumph 4. He hath taken him into the number of his Children There is a wonderful Adoption past upon him 1 Job 3. 1. 2. He that was a Child of Satan is now a Child of the Great God he hath put his own name upon him he that was one of Gods enemies may now call him father Jer. 3. 19. And this is an honour and happiness that cannot be expressed 5. He hath given them his Spirit He is theirs to dwell in them to undertake for them to conduct and counsel and comfort them Rom. 8. 9. They are called the Temples of the Holy Ghost in which he resides he is in them a Spirit of Adoption to help their faith in God as their father or of Sanctification to lead them into all truth of Consolation to comfort them in every condition and how great is their happiness 6. He hath taken them under his conduct to carry them safe through an evil world There are many troubles and temptations that they must expect in their passage but they are under the eye and care and in the hand of God and have his promise past for it that he will guide them by counsel and bring them to glory Psal 73. 24. And let things be what they will to appearance yet underneath are everlasting arms Deut. 33. 27. And here is joy indeed 7. He hath secured for them the glories of the Everlasting Kingdom They are not yet arrived at it and so cannot rejoyce as they do who are there swimming in the pleasures of it but they have this in hand and his Word and Oath for it that they shall without fail be brought thither and setled there in due time Luk. 12. 32. And he reserves it for them while he is conducting them to it 1 Pet. 14. And mean time gives them the seals and earnests of it Eph. 4. 30. 8. He both can and will accomplish all this for them He can do it in despite of all that withstand it Ro. 8 35 c. He is the Lord God Almighty And he will do it for his faithfulness is as large as his power and both are infinite if he hath said it it is as good as done and can those that are owners of such priviledges rejoyce too much The Application USE I. FOR Reprehension and it may be applied to two sorts 1. This serves to reprove the mad mirth of Unregenerate men It is an amazing thing to see Ungodly men living in all jollity and delight as if they only were owners of true happiness Job 21. 12. And there are several respects in which they are to be rebuked in regard o● this mirth 1. Those that rejoyce in iniquity So is the merry young man represented Eccl. 11. 9. And how many jocund persons are there whose very delight is in sin their stollen waters Prov. 9. 17. Lascivious and obscene talk drunken bouts carousing of healths making a mock of sin and a scoff and scorn of the Godly for their Godliness and are never merry but when engaged in heaven daring abominations doing things that it is a shame to speak thereby provoking the holy God to vengeance 2. Those that terminate all their joy on the Creature They seem more sober than the former and to have a better pretence the Creature is good in its place and we tast comfort in it but this is the blame they rest here God is not in all their thoughts Psal 10. 4. They dwell in a fat pasture their Cup ●verslows c. Psal 73. 7. And here is their hearts ●●light Psal 62. 10. And so they pay all their acknowledgments hither Hab. 2. 16. 3. That rest content in a natural joy We observed that this hath a sort of medium between the spiritual and sinful being in its own nature lawful and may be used in subserviency to the spiritual and influenced by it but Unregenerate men please themselves with this and the lawfulness of it but forget that corrupt nature in fallen man turns all his natural actions into sinful ones T it 1. 15. 4. That do all they can to put mourning away from them And hence lest they should be sorrowful they are afraid to be serious they think men born to sport themselves in the world as the fishes in the Sea hence they abandon every thing that offers to trouble them and count them their enemies that invite them thereto and if the Spirit of God set any word home which disturbs them they are displeased and instead of retiring and entertaining their thoughts with it they fly from home from all business and