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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. Actual Sin may also come under a double Co• sideration, viz. the Act, and the Obliquity of it and respect is to be had to both in the right stating of the matter.
2. Actual Sin may also come under a double Co• sideration, viz. the Act, and the Obliquity of it and respect is to be had to both in the righ• stating of the matter.
1. In respect of the Act it self. For though […] Act, as it is an Act, is Sin, but hath a nature Goodness; yet actual Sin hath an Act which […] the subject in which it is, and so there can be […] Confession of Sin, without acknowledging the Ac• Now in Divinity there are two sorts of Actions in which Sin is to be observed;
1. In respect of the Act it self. For though 〈…〉 Act, as it is an Act, is Sin, but hath a natur• Goodness; yet actual Sin hath an Act which 〈…〉 the subject in which it is, and so there can be 〈…〉 Confession of Sin, without acknowledging the Ac• Now in Divinity there are two sorts of Actions in which Sin is to be observed;
1. Commissions; which are usually called Tran• gressions. When the man doth something tha ought not to be done: and this properly respect the Negative Precepts which do prohibit the doing of them. The Law saith, thou shalt not Kill, Stea &c. when men do such things, these are Sins […] Commission: these ought not to be done; the doing of them therefore is sinful.