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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.
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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.
2. Actual Sin may also come under a double Consideration, viz. the Act, and the Obliquity of it: and respect is to be had to both in the right stating of the matter.
1. In respect of the Act it self. For though no Act, as it is an Act, is Sin, but hath a natural Goodness; yet actual Sin hath an Act which is the subject in which it is, and so there can be no Confession of Sin, without acknowledging the Act. Now in Divinity there are two sorts of Actions in which Sin is to be observed;