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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.
USE II. Let us try our state by this Rule. It is doubtless a matter of infinite concernment for every one to know what state he is in, and the Rule before us will give us light: observe then,
1. A Godly man may be too often drawn aside to that which is evil As long as there is flesh in us, and a subtle and potent adversary without us, and so many snares in the world to allure us, we are not out of this danger; we should not therefore too rashly judge of our selves; though this should humble us, and put us upon self examination.
1. A Godly man may be too often drawn aside to that which is evil As long as there is flesh in us, and a subtile and potent adversary without us, and so many snares in the world to allure us, we are not out of this danger; we should not therefore too rashly judge of our selves; though this should humble us, and put us upon self examination.
2. And we may be won suddenly to show our prevailing corruption, in slighting of counsels and reproofs. So long as we are under the captivity of the law in our members, it will draw out our lusts to act themselves, sometimes in stupidity, as it was with […] sometimes by breaking forth into unruly passion at them that rebuke us, as it was with Asa; which is a s•d sign of an ill frame that we are in, which may well stumble us, and if we now question our sincerity, it is no wonder; yet we may not hence positively conclude.
2. And we may be won suddenly to shew our prevailing corruption, in slighting of counsels and reproofs. So long as we are under the captivity of the law in our members, it will draw out our lusts to act themselves, sometimes in stupidity, as it was with sometimes by breaking forth into unruly passion at them that rebuke us, as it was with Asa; which is a sd sign of an ill frame that we are in, which may well stumble us, and if we now question our sincerity, it is no wonder; yet we may not hence positively conclude.