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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
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. That in the best of Gods Children here, there is a Body of Death remaining. We have Paul himself crying out by reason of it, Rom. 7.24. And what else is intended by this, but the relics or remains of the Sinful Corruption, which the nature of man is defiled with by the Apostasy? It is that Sinfulness in our nature, which hath in it a repugnancy to the Law of God, and cannot yield subjection to it, Rom. 8.7. And therefore is always Warning against the Law in the Mind, Chap. 7.23. And for any mere man, in this Life, to exempt himself from it, is counted a daring piece of impudence, Prov. 20 9. Hence that Hypothesis, 1 Joh. 1.8. If we say we have no Sin, we deceive our selves: And that positive Conclusion, Eccl. 7.20. There is not a just man upon earth, that doeth good, and sinneth not.
1. That in the best of Gods Children here, there is a Body of Death remaining. We have Paul himself crying out by reason of it, Rom. 7.24. And what else is intended by this, but the relicks or rem•ins of the Sinful Corruption, which the nature of man is defiled with by the Apostasy? It is that Sinfulness in our nature, which hath in it a repugnancy to the Law of God, and cannot yield subjection to it, Rom. 8.7. And therefore is always Warning against the Law in the Mind, Chap. 7.23. And for any meer man, in this Life, to exempt himself from it, is counted a daring piece of impudence, Prov. 20 9. Hence that Hypothesis, 1 Joh. 1.8. If we say we have no Sin, we deceive our selves: And that positive Conclusion,