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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 2: PROPOSITION II.
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2. Original Sin also cometh within it, That Sin which hath pervaded our nature, and polluted it. We must confess that we have it in us, & brought it into the World; that we were born with it, so he, Psal. 51.5. That it cleaves to us, and we are made by it polluted things, Isa. 64.6. That it emptied us of Original Goodness, Rom. 7.18. That it hath made us unable for so much as one good thought, 2 Cor. 3.5. That it is a Law in our Members, hurrying us violently into actual sin, Rom. 7.23. And not only that it is there, but that it is sin in us, and hath rendered us Guilty before God, and that there is enough in it, if there were no more, to bring us under the Execution of the Sentence of Death: Infants that never sinned actually, die for it, Rom. 5.14. And we must subscribe to the equity of it. We are Children of wrath by nature, Eph. 2.3. And we must acknowledge it.
2. Original Sin also cometh within it, That Sin which hath pervaded our nature, and polluted it. We must confess that we have it in us, & brought it into the World; that we were born with it, so he, Psal. 51.5. That it cleaves to us, and we are made by it polluted things, Isa. 64.6. That it emptied us of Original Goodness, Rom. 7.18. That it hath made us unable for so much as one good thought, 2 Cor. 3.5. That it is a Law in our Members, hur•ying us violently into actual sin,