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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.
4. They keep silence to God: i. e. They do not come before him and make an ingenious confession of their sin, but rather fly from him, abscond, and when their Consciences smite them, they hide from him, as our First Parents did: and either through impenitence or unbelief, they either harden themselves in their sin, or else discourage themselves by entertaining thoughts of despair.
2. Whence this cometh to pass?
A. In sum, it proceeds from the natural corruption that is in fallen man, and remains in the best while here: and it hath these things in it.
A. In summe, it proceeds from the natural corruption that is in fallen man, and remains in the best while here: and it hath these things in it.
1. Carnal Concupiscence takes pleasure in sin. Sin is Con-natural to the corrupt part that is in us; all the principles and powers of it are engaged that way: the Depraved Judgment approves of it, the perverse will makes choice of it, the perverted affections are set upon it; wicked men are in their Element when they are sinning,