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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.
1. He doth like them. His carriage is such as theirs is, he imitates the Ungodly. Sin is their trade, and it flows naturally from them; and he i• now gotten into their […], and using of their tools. If we look upon a Child of God, when he i• drawn into such actions, and know nothing else by him, we should be ready to judge him to be no other. What difference was there between Asa, when he persecuted the Prophet for reproving of him, 2 Chron. 16 10. And Amaziah, when he did like him, in Chap. 25.16. But that Asa was more furious than the other?
1. He doth like them. His carriage is such as theirs is, he imitates the Ungodly. Sin is their trade, and it flows naturally from them; and he i• now gotten into their 〈…〉, and using of their tools. If we look upon a Child of God, when he i• drawn into such actions, and know nothing else by him, we should be ready to judge him to be no other. What difference was there between Asa, when he persecuted the Prophet for reproving of him, 2 Chron. 16 10. And Amaziah, when he did like him, in Chap. 25.16. But that Asa was more furious than the other?
2. He is acted by the same principle. Wicked men are stimulated and ruled by their lusts, which have the whole command over them; and when Godly men are drawn into sin, and lie in •t, and defend it, they are the same lusts in them, that do all this by their force: nor are such things less sins because done by them; for they arise ⟨p. 501⟩