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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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2. Hence all the disobedience that the Children of God at any time are guilty of, proceeds from, and discovers the corruption in their nature. That they have perpetrated such acts, yea, and continued in them there are divers instances of it in the Word of God; and there must be some principle in them from which it derives: it cannot be their grace, and so it must •low from their sinful nature; for,
1. The grace in them prompts them to the Service of God. A Child of God, so […] as he is gracious, is cordially bound for God and his glory, and engaged in universal Obedience: the new nature puts into him a respect to all Gods Commands, Psal 119.6. It fills him with a love to God, and delight in his Precepts, Rom. 7.22. I delight in the law of God, according to the inward man. i. e The new nature which is born from above. Grace in the Child of God is the Image of God on him, and it puts him upon imitating of God, in all his imitable perfections: so that if he had nothing but grace in him, he would never do any thing but what is pleasing to God.
1. The grace in them prompts them to the Service of God. A Child of God, so 〈…〉 as he is gracious, is cordially bound for God and his glory, and engaged in universal Obedience: the new nature puts into him a respect to all Gods Commands, Psal 119.6. It fills him with a love to God, and delight in his Precepts, Rom. 7.22. I delight in the law of God, according to the inward man. i. e The new nature which is born from above. Grace in the Child of God is the Image of God on him, and it puts him upon imitating of God, in all his imitable perfections: so that if he had nothing but grace in him, he would never do any thing but what is pleasing to God.