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The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being…
The truly blessed man, or, The way to be happy here, and forever being the substance of divers sermons preached on Psalm XXXII / by Samuel Willard.
printed by B. Green and J. Allen for Michael Perry, 1650
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.
7. And now all these cunning tricks and covers will […] to the stings of Conscience. Doubtless, they are ••eat aggravations of the sin, both in that they discover abundance of the malignity of the heart, •nd because there are so many more sins added […] the first, by seeking to hide it; and the wound also must needs fester, and grow more hard to […], by all the hardness of heart that is hereby contracted. So that it must needs be a bitter re••ection, to remember, I not only fell into such a •in, but lived in it, I hid it, I was loth to let it go, I neglected the means of recovery, I hardened mine heart, I thought to abscond from an all see•ing eye, I used Guile, &c. All of which giveth Conscience advantage to reflect the more furiously.
7. And now all these cunning tricks and covers will 〈…〉 to the stings of Conscience. Doubtless, they are ••eat aggravations of the sin, both in that they •iscover abundance of the malignity of the heart, •nd because there are so many more sins added 〈…〉 the first, by seeking to hide it; and the wound •lso must needs fester, and grow more hard to 〈…〉, by all the hardness of heart that is hereby •ontracted. So that it must needs be a bitter re••ection, to remember, I not only fell into such a •in, but lived in it, I hid it, I was loth to let it go, I neglected the means of recovery, I hardened mine heart, I thought to abscond from an all see•ing eye, I used Guile, &c. All of which giveth Conscience advantage to reflect the more furiously.