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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
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.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
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. That in this Body of Death, there is a remaining Sinful Guile. It is therefore called a Body, because there is every branch or member of carnal Concupiscence in it: for, though the whole of it be mortified in Sanctification, yet there is no member of it is wholly destroyed, but remains, though not in its reigning power; and there is no lust but a Child of God shall find the stirring of […] in him, if he warily observe himself. Now this Guile is one of those Lusts, or rather a quality of them all; and all men bring it with them into the ⟨p. 103⟩World, riveted to their corrupt nature, Psal. 58. 4. On which account we have that assertion of the Prophet, Jer. 17 9. The Heart is deceitful above all things.
2. That in this Body of Death, there is a remaining Sinful Guile. It is therefore called a Body, because there is every branch or member of carnal Concupiscence in it: for, though the whole of it be mortifyed in Sanctification, yet there is no member of it is wholly destroyed, but remains, though not in its reigning power; and there is no lust but a Child of God shall find the stirring of 〈…〉 in him, if he warily observe himself. Now this Guile is one of those Lusts, or rather a quality of them all; and all men bring it with them into the ⟨p. 103⟩World, riveted to their corrupt nature, Psal. 58. 4. On which account we have that assertion of the Prophet, Jer. 17 9. The Heart is deceitful above all things.