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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. A natural pride makes men loth to take sham• to themselves, by a free confession. Pride is one […] the leading lusts in Original Sin, and such is the influence of it, that though men know they have done amiss, and are inwardly ashamed, yet they cannot tell how to stoop and abase themselves lo• because of it: so that all the cunning tricks evasions, hidings which men use, are nothing else but the breaking out of pride in them, making them count it a disgrace to fall under Convictions, Jer. 13 15.
4. A natural pride makes men loth to take sham• to themselves, by a free confession. Pride is one 〈…〉 the leading lusts in Original Sin, and such is the influence of it, that though men know they have done amiss, and are inwardly ashamed, yet they cannot tell how to stoop and abase themselves lo• because of it: so that all the cunning tricks evasions, hidings which men use, are nothing els• but the breaking out of pride in them, makin• them count it a disgrace to fall under Convictions, Jer. 13 15.
5. And carnal presumption encourageth them […] keeping silence. And it hath its various acting in the man: he presumes of secrecy, he presumes of mercy; he promiseth himself to […] cape well enough; he thinks if he can but kee• his own counsel there is no danger: and th• ⟨p. 165⟩