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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.
8. Hence such an one is, in a Gospel esteem, one in whom is no Guile. Who,
1. Hath been Regenerated by the Spirit of God, and so hath a principle of saving Grace in him. A Godly man, and one without Guile sound the same thing in Scripture language: he is therefore so called, Context, verse 6. for by virtue of such a saving change, the man comes to have a Right Spirit in him, as it called, Psal. 51.10.
1. Hath been Regenerated by the Spirit of God, and so hath a principle of saving Grace in him. A Godly man, and one without Guile sound the same thing in Scripture language: he is therefore so called, Context, verse 6. for by vertue of such a saving change, the man comes to have a Right Spirit in him, as it called, Psal. 51.10.
2. Hereupon he cordially and sincerely propounds the Glory of God as his last end, in his whole course. Though he may miss it in the application in many things, yet this is the general ⟨p. 107⟩scope of his life, and he studieth it daily; this is the great concern that lies upon him, 1 Cor. 10.3. And this is the natural inclination of the new nature in us: for it was put into us to enable us to Glorify God, and hath therefore in it a tendency to the end it was Created for, and accordingly prompts us hereunto.