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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
Sermon › Doctrine 1: Untractableness under means, a character of a wicked man. DOCTRINE. I.
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Untractableness under means, a character of a wicked man. DOCTRINE. I.
Untractableness under the means, belongs to the Character of wicked men. Those whom before he compared to the horse and mule, here he calls the wicked. This Doctrine is not so to be understood, as if every act of contumacy, did declare a man to be really wicked; i. e. Unregenerate. There have been such unhappy instances in the particular carriage of those that have the root of the matter in them, through the prevalency of the ⟨p. 496⟩Law in their members. That then we may rightly take up this truth, observe these Conclusions.
UNtractableness under the means, belongs to the Character of wicked men. Those whom before he compared to the horse and mule, here he calls the wicked. This Doctrine is not so to be understood, as if every act of contumacy, did declare a man to be really wicked; i. e. Unregenerate. There have been such unhappy instances in the particular carriage of those that have the root of the matter in them, through the prevalency of the ⟨p. 496⟩Law in their members. That then we may rightly take up this truth, observe these Conclusions.
1. That all disobedience to Gods Commands proceeds from the corruption in mans nature. This is the proper fountain to which it is to be referred: and this will be evident, from the consideration of these things.