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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. There is never an one of us but doth info nitely need it; there is no doing without one fo• the children of men: it is therefore the greate• concern that lies upon us; the first thing w• have to seek after; for,
2. There is never an one of us but doth inf• nitely need it; there is no doing without one fo• the children of men: it is therefore the greate• concern that lies upon us; the first thing w• have to seek after; for,
1. We are all Sinners. This is the natural state in which all men are at first: the fall hath brought it upon the whole race. We are Sinners by Imputation; the great Transgression which our first Parents perpetrated, when they stood as public Persons, is become ours, and we stand condemned for it. Rom. 5. 12. The defilement of nature is upon us all, that Original, in dwelling Sin, which hath depraved all our faculties and powers, and filled them with the habits of perverseness. Psal. 58. 4. & 51. 5. And we have committed innumerable Actual Sins Gen. 8. 21. So that there is a woeful deal of matter for pardon in every one of us; for it is Sin that makes us to need forgiveness.
1. We are all Sinners. This is the natural state in which all men are at first: the fall hath brought it upon the whole race. We are Sinners by Imputation; the great Transgression which our first Parents perpetrated, when they stood as publick Persons, is become ours, and we stand condemned for it.