The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…

1. Be awakened to see and be affected with •our present misery. Take heed of sleeping in •rnal security; you have little reason for it, if •ou understand how the case is with you. Con•der then,

1. You are under Guilt. Who is there in the World, that can wash his hands from being a sin•l creature? It is the Wise mans challenge, Prov. •0. 9. Who can say I am pure from my sins? and I •are every Soul to whom this Doctrine may •ome, to make an answer to it; and if Sin can •e charged on you, how can you excuse your •lves from being Guilty, except you have already obtained a pardon? You are in your natural state under the Law; and your outward relation to the Gospel doth not discharge you from it, ⟨p. 58⟩how vainly soever you please your selves with it• and if so, consider, Rom. 3. 19. Every mouth sh• be stopped, and all the world found Guilty: Tha• Law which hath hold on you, saith that the S• that sins shall die; and you stand under this ver• relation to it: You are bound over to suff• death, not Temporal only, but Eternal too; an• this obligation is so strong, that you cannot brea it; and is not this Guilt?