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

3. Let it be to direct Sinners in this affair: how Confession is rightly to be made, was opened under the former Doctrine: Only for our help in it, take these Rules.

1. Be duly affected with your Guilt. Till we rightly apprehend that, we shall never kindly confess our sin; the want of this is the reason why some confess not at all, and others do it so slightly: whereas, when once the Soul is under the burden of this, and finds himself justly condemned, this will draw forth a free and full Confession, Psal. 51. 3.

2. Know your own impotency to remove this Guilt. This is the undoing of many a convinced Sinner, who finds himself under Condemnation, and not being humbled, but acted by a legal spirit, hopeth to make up all by a Righteousness of his own, and so, instead of duly confessing, falls to his Reformations, sets upon abstinence from sin, and takes a task on him, to perform moral duties, hoping so to make up ill, and thus deceiveth himself. Know that you cannot do any thing to purchase Gods favour, Isa. 64. 6.

2. Know your own impotency to remove this Guilt. This is the undoing of many a convinced Sinner, who finds himself under Condemnation, and not being humbled, but acted by a legal spirit, hopeth to make up all by a Righteousness of his own, and so, instead of duly consessing, falls to his Reformations, sets upon abstinence from sin, and takes a task on him, to perform moral duties, hoping so to make up ill, and thus deceiveth himself. Know that you cannot do any thing to purchase Gods favour,