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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.
3. By flat and peremptory denials. If men know themselves suspected, and presume it cannot be proved against them, they have a lie at hand to cover it withal; hoping by their impudence to gain credit: and if they may be believed, all is well. Thus Gehezi thought to cover his fact, in 2 Kings 5.25.
3. By flat and peremptory denials. If men know themselves suspected, and presume it cannot be proved against them, they have a ly at hand to cover it withal; hoping by their impudence to gain credit: and if they may be believed, all is well. Thus Gehezi thought to cover his fact, in 2 Kings 5.25.
4 They seek to baffle their own Consciences about it. Conscience sometimes will have its reflections, and men are hard put to it to treat with them, but yet they have their ways to silence them too, and that,
1. By putting it out of their minds. They endeavour to forget it, or not to think of it, and therefore divert their thoughts to some other thing, and fill their hearts and hands with business that shall occupy them. So Cain seeks to Build a City, instead of hearkening to his Conscience, Gen. 4.16. men hope if they can forget it, God will too.