N00802:1968
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
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. You have seen the evil and bitterness of Sin. Sin remains here in the upright, but God will have them be in the mortification of it, in which a warfare is maintained, and for this he makes the man know the vileness of it, Jer. 2.19. They to whom God hath not embittered sin, may well question ⟨p. 637⟩their state, and conclude that he hath •ot planted his Grace in them.
2. You have truly repented of it. The root of integrity is laid in Repentance. Gospel Repentance wrought in the heart is that which makes it upright; for by it the heart is changed, and all its faculties made new, habitually turned from sin to God; which is the reason of the sincerity of their actual turning, so that they who have not repented, are no• upright.
2. You have truly repented of it. The root of integrity is laid in Repentance. Gospel Repentance w•ought in the heart is that which makes it upright; for by it the heart is changed, and all its facul•ies made new, habitually turned from sin to God; which is the reason of the sincerity of their actual turning, so that they who have not repented, are no• upright.
3 You have accepted of Christ for a Prince as well as a Saviour Christ is not divided: it a guess a false heart, when we would have him to Save us from Hell, but like not his subduing our sins for us: the heart is divided, & that cannot be upright. Uprightness hath a desire after perfect Holiness, and finds as much need of the Spirit of Christ to lead him, as his merits to justify him.