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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.
1. That a true Convert may fall into some Conscience wasting Sin. He is not out of danger, yea sometimes is so overtaken. All the Sins of Gods Children are in a sense, sins of Infirmity, because there is a party in them that consents not, but yet there are some that have more of boldness in them, and do more nearly strike the Conscience, which are presumptuous sins, which he prays hard against, Psal. 19. 13. When prevailing Concupiscence hurries them to do things against the light of Conscience, either to shut their eyes, against it, or to be born down by the force of a lust, to commit it, though Conscience saith it ought not to be, this is a Conscience wasting sin: and though it looks unlike the Spot of Gods Children, yet sometimes when left to themselves, they are thus entangled. Davids Adultery and Murder were such, and such was Solomons Building Idolatrous Houses.
1. That a true Convert may fall into some Conscience wasting Sin. He is not out of danger, yea sometimes is so overtaken. All the Sins of Gods Children are in a sense, sins of Infirmity, because there is a party in them that consents not, but yet there are some that have more of boldness in them, and do more nearly striek the Conscience, which are presumptuous sins, which he prays hard against, Psal. 19. 13. When prevailing Concupiscence hurries them to do things against the light of Conscience, either to shut their eyes, against it, or to be born down by the force of a lust, to commit it, though Conscience saith it ought not to be, this is a Conscience wasting sin: and though it looks unlike the Spot of Gods Children, yet sometimes when left to themselves, they are thus entangled. Davids Adultery and Murder were such, and such was Solomons Building Idolatrous Houses.
2. That God doth not ordinarily suffer his own to […] long under the insensibleness of such sins. How •ng he may, is not for us to tell, yet he is wont […] due time to awaken their Consciences, and ve them the feeling of them. He sends some messenger or other to rouse them; some Prophet, […] he did to David. Either he meets them in an Ordinance, and causeth some word to fasten on them, or in a Providence, as Josephs Brethren; and thus God doth in faithfulness, because whiles