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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.
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.
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, 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.
5. Hence all disobedience must needs flow […] that enmity that is in us, which is not, nor can be subject to the law of God. It is the very disposition of the flesh or corrupt nature in us, Rom. 8 7. from it then must proceed all that Opposition ⟨p. 498⟩that is made by us to the revealed will of God. If man had not sin in him, he would not disobey, if then he do so at any time, it is Sin that leads him to it. All sins are charged to be the fruits of the flesh,