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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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3 It was by sin that man revolted from that Service. It was a transgression of the Law of God in which mans Apostasy did consist: the very act of it was an act of Rebellion; this is the very nature of sin, 1 J•h 3 4. By that act of Disobedience that our First Parents committed, sin was introduced into the world, Rom. 5.12. If sin had not gotten into mans heart, he had never violated the Command
3 It was by sin that man revolted from that Service. It was a transgression of the Law of God in which mans Apostasy did consist: the very act of it was an act of Reb•llion; this is the very nature of sin, 1 J•h 3 4. By that act of Disobedience that our First Parents committed, sin was introduced into the world, Rom. 5.12. If sin had not gotten into mans heart, he had never violated the Command
4. The Grace that is renewed in the Children of God, is a new Principle of Obedience in them. Sanctifying Grace is put into us by the renewing of the Spirit, Eph. 4.23. Which supposeth that ma• once had it, and lost it: it is therefore the same Grace for kind that man had at first; it must then have the same influence upon him, and be given him for the same use, which is to enable and dispose him to Serve God: It is therefore called life, because by it we are are enabled to […] God; and being a principle of Holiness, it can have no other tendency than to put us upon living holily.
4. The Grace that is renewed in the Children of God, is a new Principle of Obedience in them. Sanctifying Grace is put into us by the renewing of the Spirit,