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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 2: Guilt apprehended, Distressing to Gods Children. DOCTRINE II.
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.
5. To this End maintain a tender Conscience. Let the world flout at it as much as they will, it matters not. Be not hard to resent a Sin; if it may be, let it touch you in the Temptation; but be not so Senseless as not to feel it when it hath made a Wound in your Conscience. Keep up an heart that is afraid of any thing that looks like a Sin, and be Jealous of your selves, lest you be imposed on, and Suspicious lest you have so been? And in the exercise of such a frame, you will be in the best way to maintain the inward Peace of your Souls.
2. We have Considered the Psalmists distress, it follows, that we proceed to take notice of that from whence it came, or which gave occasion for it: which is expressed in two things.
2. We have Considered the Psalmists distress, it follows, that we proceed to take notice of that from whence it came, or which gave occasion for it: which is exprest in two things.
1. The moral procuring cause of it; while I kept silence.