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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 › The danger and mischief of Sinful silence and evasions. DOCTRINE.
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.
A. In sum, it proceeds from the natural corruption that is in fallen man, and remains in the best while here: and it hath these things in it.
A. In summe, it proceeds from the natural corruption that is in fallen man, and remains in the best while here: and it hath these things in it.
1. Carnal Concupiscence takes pleasure in sin. Sin is Con-natural to the corrupt part that is in us; all the principles and powers of it are engaged that way: the Depraved Judgment approves of it, the perverse will makes choice of it, the perverted affections are set upon it; wicked men are in their Element when they are sinning, Job 15.16. And so much of flesh as remains in Gods Children, so much of this inclination there is, Rom. 7. ult.
1. Carnal Concupiscence takes pleasure in sin. Sin is Con-natural to the corrupt part that is in us; all the principles and powers of it are engaged that way: the Depraved Judgment approves of it, the perverse will makes choise of it, the perverted affections are set upon it; wicked men are in their Element when they are sinning, Job 15.16. And so much of flesh as remains in Gods Children, so much of this inclination there is, Rom. 7. ult.
2. A natural Conscience checks men for sin. It is its Office, according to its light, to call on men to do their duty, and reflect on and reprove them when they fail in it, and there is more or less of this activity in all that are not seared,