The truly blessed man

1. Be awakened to see and be affected with your present misery. Take heed of sleeping in carnal security; you have little reason for it, if you understand how the case is with you. Consider then,

1. Be awakened to see and be affected with your present misery. Take heed of sleeping in •arnal security; you have little reason for it, if you understand how the case is with you. Consider then,

1. You are under Guilt. Who is there in the World, that can wash his hands from being a sinful creature? It is the Wise mans challenge, Prov. 20.9. Who can say I am pure from my sins? and I dare every Soul to whom this Doctrine may come, to make an answer to it; and if Sin can be charged on you, how can you excuse your selves from being Guilty, except you have already obtained a pardon? You are in your natural estate under the Law; and your outward relation to the Gospel doth not discharge you from it, ⟨p. 58⟩how vainly soever you please your selves with it, and if so, consider, Rom. 3.19. Every mouth shall be stopped, and all the world found Guilty: That Law which hath hold on you, faith that the Soul that sins shall die; and you stand under this very relation to it: You are bound over to suffer death, not Temporal only, but Eternal too; and this obligation is so strong, that you cannot break it; and is not this Guilt?

1. You are under Guilt. Who is there in the World, that can wash his hands from being a sinful creature? It is the Wise mans challenge, Prov. 20.9. Who can say I am pure from my sins? and I dare every Soul to whom this Doctrine may come, to make an answer to it; and if Sin can be charged on you, how can you excuse your selves from being Guilty, except you have already obtained a pardon? You are in your natural estate under the Law; and your outward relation to the Gospel doth not discharge you from it,