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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. When it is followed with Impenitency. Though Gods Children may fall far, and get grievous bruises, yea, and stupefy themselves for the present, yet he will recover them again by Repentance, he will make it evil and bitter to them, they shall see, bewail, and turn from these sins with their whole heart; so did David, although it were some while before he so did, 2 Sam. 12. And this is from Gods Covenant faithfulness, who hath said that he will not suffer them utterly to fall: whereas Ungodly men are left under the power of impenitency, to harden their hearts as an Adamant, and refuse to return, Jer. 8.5. And the more they are warned, the more perverse they are.
2. When it is followed with Impenitency. Though Gods Children may fall far, and get grievous bruises, yea, and stupify themselves for the present, yet he will recover them again by Repentance, he will make it evil and bitter to them, they shall see, bewail, and turn from these sins with their whole heart; so did David, although it were some while before he so did, 2 Sam. 12. And this is from Gods Covenant faithfulness, who hath said that he will not suffer them utterly to fall: whereas Ungodly men are left under the power of impenitency, to harden their hearts as an Adamant, and refuse to return, Jer. 8.5. And the more they are warned, the more perverse they are.
3. When there is not a withstanding of this corruption by Grace. A wicked man may have reluctancies in him, against some motions of sin, and scuffles too: Conscience may be touched, and set terrors before him, and reluct against the carriages ⟨p. 503⟩of Concupiscence, but this is not a gracious reluctance; one lust may withstand another, or Conscience & Concupiscence may bicker: whereas in a Child of God it is his grace that stirs; love to God, sense of the affront offered him hatred of sin: thus Joseph resisted,