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

1. As we are concerned with them. We have not ⟨p. 210⟩only our Personal, but our Relative concern too about Sin. Confession is a proper adjunct of Prayer, and must accompany the petitions in which we seek mercy of God, and the averting of his Judgments. Now there is the consideration of a people as one body, in which every person is a Member; and there are the Sins of others, which we have avoided, that lie upon the Land, and the whole is obnoxious by them: such wa• Achan's sin, Josh. 22. 20. There are the Sins of Rulers, which have great influence, such was that of Saul, 2 Sam. 21. begin. and of David, Chap. 2• begin and of Hezekiah, 2 Chron. 32. 25. These are to be confessed by every one, Dan. 9. 4, 5, 6. And this belongs to that mourning commended, Ezek 9. 3. There are Sins committed in Churches by some, which make God angry with such Societies; when God indicts Jerusalem, he said there are these and those in thee, Ezek. 22. 7. &c. […] Rev. 2. 14. And upon it he calls the whole to Repentance, verse 16. And there are those Sins […] Families that expose them to special Tokens of Divine Displeasure: God sometimes deviseth E•• against a particular Family for the provocation […] some in it, as in Eli's case, all therefore in it, •• pecially the Governors ought to confess their Family Sins; thus did Job, Chap. 1. 5. and a suspi•• on of it moved him to that. Yea, there are p•• vate Sins of others to which we may be accessar•• and ought therefore to confess them, lest we a suffer with them, for we are not innocent.