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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.
3. The man must judge himself for it. In t• Repentance there is a formal process in the m•• against himself. Conscience doth, in the na• of God, call a Court in the man; he Summo• himself to the Tribunal; he indicts himself […] sinning against God, in transgressing his H• Law, chargeth it on himself as done voluntan• by the naughtiness of his own heart, finds him self Guilty, and ratifieth the threatening of God Word against himself; all this is contained in t•• one Hypothesis, 1 Joh. 3. 20. If our heart cond•• us. The word is used for the pronouncing ⟨p. 227⟩Sentence on a Guilty Malefactor. Now what cadence doth the man use in this process but his •n Conscience, which is done by a free and •ll confession, acknowledging that he hath done ••e thing, and done sinfully in it, Psal. 106. 6.
3. The man must judge himself for it. In t• Repentance there is a formal process in the m•• against himself. Conscience doth, in the na• of God, call a Court in the man; he Summo• himself to the Tribunal; he indicts himself 〈…〉 sinning against God, in transgressing his H• Law, chargeth it on himself as done voluntan• by the naughtiness of his own heart, finds him self Guilty, and ratifieth the threatning of God Word against himself; all this is contained in t one Hypothesis,