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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.
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.
1. That men are apt, upon the Commission of Sin to keep Silence sinfully, and use Devices to hide it. Probably David hath respect to the contrivances he had practised to abscond the Adultery he had committed with Bathsheba. Two things may hence be considered, 1. That it is so. 2. Whence it cometh to pass?
1. That it is so is evident by the common practice of Unregenerate men, and the too frequent incidence of it to the Regenerate. And this will be more manifest ⟨p. 161⟩by considering the wrong courses frequently used in this case; viz.