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The truly blessed man
The truly blessed man: or, The way to be happy here, and for ever: being the substance of divers sermons preached on, Psalm XXXII. / By Samuel Willard, teacher of a church in Boston. N.E. ; [Five lines from Isaiah]
printed by B. Green for Michael Perry, 1700
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.
1. That the Guilt of Sin is an exceeding heavy burden
Sin, as light as the most of men make of it, is an oppressing, and intolerable load, and it is Guilt that makes it so; the truth of this conclusion will appear from the consideration of three things.
Sin, as light as the most of men make of it, is an oppressing, and intollerable load, and it is Guilt that makes it so; the truth of this conclusion will appear from the consideration of three things.
1. From the nature of Guilt it self; and indeed there need no more but this to clear the truth in hand.
In the Demonstration of this, I shall not insist largely; Guilt is properly an obligation lying upon a Sinner to suffer punishment: and it falls upon him as soon as he hath by Sin made himself obnoxious. It properly ariseth from the relation which he bears to the Law of God. All mankind originally are the Subjects of the Law, and by the Transgression of it they are denominated Sinners,