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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. They use secrecy in the committing of sin. All do not show their Sins as Sodom: though they are willing to Sin, yet they care not for having it discovered; and therefore when they are resolved to do it, they contrive how to do it privately, and choose times and places accordingly; and the reason is, because if they can keep it private, they think themselves safe, see Psal. 64 5. Ezek. 8.12. Eph. 5.12. 2 Sam. 12.12.
1. They use secresie in the committing of sin. All do not shew their Sins as Sodom: though they are willing to Sin, yet they care not for having it discovered; and therefore when they are resolved to do it, they contrive how to do it privately, and chuse times and places accordingly; and the reason is, because if they can keep it private, they think themselves safe, see Psal. 64 5. Ezek. 8.12. Eph. 5.12. 2 Sam. 12.12.
2. When they have committed Sin, they study ways to hide it from mens cognizance. Their business is not to get it pardoned, but to keep it from taking air, and coming out against them; they seek not to have Christ to cover it under the Robe of his Righteousness, but get covers of their own to throw over […] and this must needs proceed from a root of Atheism, presuming there is no danger if men cannot prove it; and this they endeavour.