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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. Original Sin also cometh within it. That Si• which hath pervaded our nature, and polluted it• We must confess that we have it in us, & brought it into the World; that we were born with it, so he, Psal. 51. 5. That it cleaves to us, and we are made by it polluted things, Isa. 64. 6. That it emptied us of Original Goodness, Rom. 7. 18. That i• hath made us unable for so much as one good though• 2 Cor. 3. 5. That it is a Law in our Members, hu• rying us violently into actual sin, Rom. 7. 23. And not only that it is there, but that it is sin in us, and hath rendered us Guilty before God, and that there is enough in it, if there were no more, to bring us under the Execution of the Sentence of Death: Infants that never sinned actually, die for it, Rom. 5. 14. And we must subscribe to the equity of it. We are Children of wrath by nature, Eph. 2. 3. And we must acknowledge it.
2. Original Sin also cometh within it. That Si• which hath pervaded our nature, and polluted it• We must confess that we have it in us, & brough• it into the World; that we were born with it, so he, Psal. 51. 5. That it cleaves to us, and we are made by it polluted things, Isa. 64. 6. That it emptied us of Original Goodness,