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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 › The danger and mischief of Sinful silence and evasions. DOCTRINE.
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.
The danger and mischief of Sinful silence and evasions. DOCTRINE.
The Sinful silence, and cunning tricks that men use to cover their Sins withal, do but lay in for the more awful distress of Conscience afterwards.
THe Sinful silence, and cunning tricks that men use to cover their Sins withal, do but lay in for the more awful distress of Conscience afterwards.
There are two Propositions contained in this Doctrine.
1. That men are apt upon the Commission of Sin to keep silence sinfully, and to use devices to hide it.
2. That in their so doing, they lay in for the more awful distress of Conscience afterwards.