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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 › Right Confession, its nature and usefulness. DOCTRINE. › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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. Privative; Man in his Natural state is void of Original Righteousness. There was a Moral rectitude put into the Nature of man at first, Eccle. 7.29. This is that which is most directly intended, by the Image of God in which man was made, Gen. 1.26. It consisted in those Graces of Sanctification, by which man was fitted for Universal Perfect Obedience to the whole Will of God. Man by the Fall hath lost this rectitude, and is Born into the World without this Image; And this is a Sinful state, for the Law requires it in him, and, as he was betrusted with it, expects it of him. The ⟨p. 191⟩want of it hath rendered him Impotent as to his Duty, which Impotency is put into the description of the Sinful state of Fallen man, Rom. 3.10, 11, 12. And the man cannot answer the Law so long as he is without it: and it is a Privation, for man once had the habit of it on him, and it was Connatural to him.
1. Privative; Man in his Natural state is void of Original Righteousness. There was a Moral rectitude put into the Nature of man at first, Eccle. 7.29. This is that which is most directly intended, by the Image of God in which man was made, Gen. 1.26. It consisted in those Graces of Sanctification, by which man was fitted for Universal Perfect Obedience to the whole Will of God. Man by the Fall hath lost this rectitude, and is Born into the World without this Image; And this is a Sinful state, for the Law requires it in him, and, as he was betrusted with it, expects it of him. The ⟨p. 191⟩want of it hath rendred him Impotent as to his Duty, which Impotency is put into the description of the Sinful state of Fallen man, Rom. 3.10, 11, 12. And the man cannot answer the Law so long as he is without it: and it is a Privation, for man once had the habit of it on him, and it was Connatural to him.