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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.
2. Go to Christ confessing it. Do not think to hide away from him, to cover your transgression, and keep it hid, and so quiet your selves: While David did so, it did but torment him, Context, verse 3, 4. Confession is the way; Christ knows your frame, and can pity you, but he expects an ingenious acknowledgement, Jer. 3.13.
2. Go to Christ confessing it. Do not think to hide away from him, to cover your transgression, and keep it hid, and so quiet your selves: While David did so, it did but torment him, Context, verse 3, 4. Confession is the way; Christ knows your frame, and can pity you, but he expects an ingenious acknowledgment, Jer. 3.13.
3. Renew your Repentance. Confessing and Forsaking must go together, else the former will not avail, Prov. 28.13 Turn from that sin with hatred and detestation of it put it from you, and resolve by the help of God, to have nothing more to do with it. True Repentance will lead the way to have your joy restored again; and the more deep and through it is, the better it will be for you.
3. Renew your Repentance. Confessing and Forsaking must go together, else the former will not avail, Prov. 28.13 Turn from that sin with hatred and detestation of it put it from you, and resolve by the help of God, to have nothing more to do with it. True Repentance will lead the way to have your joy restored again; and the more deep and thorow it is, the better it will be for you.