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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. Positive; Man is in his Natural state filled •ith the evil habits of Unrighteousness. When he •st the Image of God, he contracted the Image of […] in the room of it, which consists in the Corruption of the whole Nature, as the Crooked bias which is in all his Faculties and Powers, forcibly •clining him to Transgress the Law of God, set •orth, Rom. 3. 13. &c. And it hath two things […] it.
2. Positive; Man is in his Natural state filled •ith the evil habits of Unrighteousness. When he •st the Image of God, he contracted the Image of 〈…〉 in the room of it, which consists in the Cor•uption of the whole Nature, as the Crooked bias which is in all his Faculties and Powers, forcibly •clining him to Transgress the Law of God, set •orth, Rom. 3. 13. &c. And it hath two things 〈…〉 it.
1. An utter Averseness to that which is Good. i. e. geologically so. Man is a Rational Creature, chu•eth under the notion of Good, and refuseth under an opinion of Evil; but he doth this according to Corrupt reason, and not by the Rule of Region And though sometimes if it be in the matter of it right, yet he doth it not aright: hence proceeds mens refusing Obedience,