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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. In the Repentance which it brings the man to afterwards. Sometimes the Law of the Members is too subtle and strong, and leads the man Captive, and he is drawn into Dissimulation, as Peter and Barnabas were, Gal. 2. 12. &c. The deceitfulness of his worser part imposeth upon him, and he plays the Fool; but as his Grace had no hand in it, but was merely overborne; so it recruits again, and what it could not prevent by withstanding, it clears it self of, by Repentance. The Godly sorrow, bitter mourning, self-abhorrence and mortification he applies to it, witnesseth for him, 2 Cor. 7. 11. And this belongs to that Spiritual warfare, with which the Gospel acquaints us.
2. In the Repentance which it brings the man to afterwards. Sometimes the Law of the Members is too subtile and strong, and leads the man Captive, and he is drawn into Dissimulation, as Peter and Barnabas were, Gal. 2. 12. &c. The deceitfulness of his worser part imposeth upon him, and he plays the Fool; but as his Grace had no hand in it, but was meerly overborn; so it recruits again, and what it could not prevent by withstanding, it clears it self of, by Repentance. The Godly sorrow, bitter mourning, self-abhorrence and mortification he applies to it, witnesseth for him, 2 Cor. 7. 11. And this belongs to that Spiritual warfare, with which the Gospel acquaints us.
7. That God, in the New Covenant, values us according to this New Nature. It is true, the Corruption within us, is Originally our own, and we have reason to bewail it as long as we Live• and it gives the Believer a world of grief and molestation. And when we neglect our Graces, and allow or nourish our Corruptions, God, as a Father is angry, and Corrects us for it: but however, God looks upon his People according to their Grace. This is the New-Creature, and they are judge such who have it in them. And where there […] this warfare against Corruption, and Grace exercised in Resistance and Repentance, God is please to accept of us; and though he Charge the oth upon our Concupiscence, and will Mortify it […] us, yet he Chargeth it not so upon the person, […] to put him out of his Favour for it. And on th account it is, that Paul dares to put it off from himself to his Sin,