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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 2: Wicked mens Sorrows, great and innumerable. DOCTRINE II.
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4. Satan, and our deceitful hearts will impose on us if they can It is the Devils device to make men confident in their unregenerate state, and one way is, to persuade them to think God like themselves; but if that will not do, he will endeavour to make them think they have the Grace of God, when there is no such thing. And the flesh in us is always ready to join in with this; and it follows from a good opinion which the natural man hath of himself, and his own doings: and because there is so much cunning in these adversaries of our Souls, it concerns us to be so much the more watchful to our selves, lest we be imposed on and undone by it, we are therefore warned both concerning the Heart, Jer. 17.9 and Satan, 1 Pet. 5.8.
4. Satan, and our deceitful hearts will impose on us if they can It is the Devils device to make men confident in their unregenerate state, and one way is, to perswade them to think God like themselves; but if that will not do, he will endeavour to make them think they have the Grace of God, when there is no such thing. And the flesh in us is always ready to joyn in with this; and it follows from a good opinion which the natural man hath of himself, and his own doings: and because there is so much cunning in these adversaries of our Souls, it concerns us to be so much the more watchful to our selves, lest we be imposed on and undone by it, we are therefore warned both concerning the Heart, Jer. 17.9 and Satan, 1 Pet. 5.8.
5. If you are found among the wicked at last, you see your doom. The assertion is positive, and admits of no exceptions, but only that the man who one• ⟨p. 531⟩