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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.
4. Conscience is an Accuser. This is one office it bears under God, Rom. 2.15. And though, for the present, men bribe and baffle their Consciences, and make them to hold their peace, yet they will certainly betray them; and when there is neither Man, Angel, nor Devil appears, to lay any thing to their charge, this will haunt them with its reflections, and give them no rest. Yea, how often doth it blab all, and force a confession from them before men.
5. Conscience is a Judge. It hath and keeps a Court in the man, in which it arraigns, tries, and condemns him; and when God gives it a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, it will do it to purpose, 1 Joh. 3 20. It calls the man to its bar, lays open his case, indicts him, maketh him to hold up his hand, convinceth him effectually, and then passeth the Sentence of the Law formally upon him, and so he stands Condemned. We have this instanced in David, 1 Sam. 24.10. In Josephs brethren, Gen. 42.21, 22. In Judas, Math. 27. begin.
5. Conscience is a Judge. It hath and keeps a Court in the man, in which it arreigns, tries, and condemns him; and when God gives it a Commission of Oyer and Terminer, it will do it to purpose, 1 Joh. 3 20. It calls the man to its bar, lays open his case, indicts him, maketh him to hold up his hand, convinceth him effectually, and then passeth the Sentence of the Law formally upon him, and so he stands Condemned. We have this instanced in David, 1 Sam. 24.10