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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.
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, Rom. 7. 24. You bear it as an insupportable burden, it wearies you, you long to be rid of ⟨p. 126⟩it; Godly Sorrow is a concomitant of, or an ingredient in that Repentance that is not to be repented of, 2 Cor. 7. 10.
2 Do you maintain a War against it? Is it to you a deadly Enemy, and that which you are wrestling with, fighting against continually? it makes many furious assaults upon you, and gains sometimes very unhappily in you, but you do not subject your selves to it, but recruit again, and combat it. Do you find this Spirit in you Lusting against the flesh, and all its deceits, and doing its utmost to destroy it?