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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.
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2. That God seeth, observeth, and keepeth a record of all the sins that men thus commit. When it is said that God cannot behold iniquity, it is to be understood of his approbation; but yet, as the Sin ⟨p. 166⟩of the Creature, hath a respect to the special Government of God, so he hath […] eye constantly upon it, and maketh his remarks o• it, Jer. 17.1. For, as the Law is the Rule of the Government, so the carriages of men with respect to it, are the things according to which the •••gment is to pass upon men, 2 Cor. 5.10. We ••e therefore told. that God will bring every work into judgment, Eccles. 12.14. And in order to this he keeps an exact record of them all, Deut. 32.34. So that not only do they come within the comprehension of his Omniscience, but are the matter of his strict observation, Psal. 11.4. He looketh into the darkest corners, and taketh notice of what men do in the most secret Chambers of Imagery, and puts all on the file.
2. That God seeth, observeth, and keepeth a record of all the sins that men thus commit. When it is said that God cannot behold iniquity, it is to be understood of his approbation; but yet, as the Sin ⟨p. 166⟩of the Creature, hath a respect to the special Government of God, so he hath 〈…〉 eye constantly upon it, and maketh his remarks o• it, Jer. 17.1. For, as the Law is the Rule of the Government, so the carriages of men with respct to it, are the things according to which the gment is to pass upon men,