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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
Sermon › Doctrine 1: The distress of a Conscience burdened with Sin. DOCTRINE. I.
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. Conscience is a Register. It is a Book of records in which all matters of fact are fairly written and reserved. Man may for the present have forgotten a great many things, but they are faithfully entered in the rolls of Conscience, and he shall there read them sooner or later: they are there graven indelebly, As with a Pen of Iron, and point of a diamond, in the Rock: and not one sin that he was ever Guilty of▪ but is there upon the file, to be produced against him, for which reason it is called a Book, Rev. 20.12.
2. Conscience is a Register. It is a Book of records in which all matters of fact are fairly written and reserved. Man may for the present have forgotten a great many things, but they are faithfully entred in the rolls of Conscience, and he shall there read them sooner or later: they are there graven indelebly, As with a Pen of Iron, and point of a diamond, in the Rock: and not one sin that he was ever Guil•y of▪ but is there upon the file, to be produced against him, for which reason it is called a Book, Rev. 20.12.
3. Conscience is a Witness to matters of fact. ⟨p. 137⟩And this it is in all the Circumstances; and as good as ten thousand, being privy to all, standing by, looking on, and writing down the most Secret Sins, Rom 2.15. And it will not, dares not withhold its Testimony, when God commands it to declare: if he lay the matter before it, it will not be silent, Joh. 8.9. Nor will the man dare to deny, when Conscience stares him in the face and terrifieth him.