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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. An utter Averseness to that which is Good. i. e. Theologically so. Man is a Rational Creature, chooseth under the notion of Good, and refuseth under an opinion of Evil; but he doth this according to Corrupt reason, and not by the Rule of Religion. And though sometimes if it be in the matter of it right, yet he doth it not aright: hence proceeds mens refusing Obedience, Psal. 78.10. Jer. 5.3. And this is upon Choice, flowing from a Cursed disposition in them, and is Sinful.
1. An utter Averseness to that which is Good. i. e. Theologically so. Man is a Rational Creature, chuseth under the notion of Good, and refuseth under an opinion of Evil; but he doth this according to Corrupt reason, and not by the Rule of Religion. And though sometimes if it be in the matter of it right, yet he doth it not aright: hence proceeds mens refusing Obedience, Psal. 78.10. Jer. 5.3. And this is upon Choise, flowing from a Cursed disposition in them, and is Sinful.
2. A violent inclination to that which is Evil, True, they call Evil Good, and under that notion they crave after it, Isa. 5.20. But it is a Corrupt principle in them from whence they so do; and the insatiable reaching of their hearts after it, is of the Sinfulness of their Nature. And this is ⟨p. 192⟩Eminently observable in a Gracious Soul, by the reluctancy of it against the better part, of which the Apostle maketh such complaint, Rom. 7.19. &c.