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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. Have you truly loathed your selves for it? Self-abhorrence is the genuine product of this discovery, in every one that is delivered from it. When God comes to show men their Guile to a Saving purpose, he makes it to work in them unto detestation of themselves; they are vile in their own eyes, Ezek. 36. 31. For, together with showing them the thing, he •ets them see how odious it is in it self, and how loathsome it hath rendered them.
2. Have you truly loathed your selves for it? Selfabhorrence is the genuine product of this discovery, in every one that is delivered from it. When God comes to shew men their Guile to a Saving purpose, he makes it to work in them unto detestation of themselves; they are vile in their own eyes, Ezek. 36. 31. For, together with shewing them the thing, he •ets them see how odious it is in it self, and how loathsome it hath rendred them.
3. Is it truly mortified in you? Mortification is one part of Sanctification; and though your Guile be not eradicated, yet if it be under the efficacy of this mortification, it is a good Evidence. And here,
3. Is it truly mortifyed in you? Mortification is one part of Sanctification; and though your Guile be not erradicated, yet if it be under the efficacy of this mortification, it is a good Evidence. And here,
1. Do you cordially mourn by reason of it? If the presence of it grieves you, and you cannot see it without being in bitterness by reason of it, it speaks well for you; this was Pauls witness for him,