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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.
6. In order to this Repentance, God will awaken Conscience, and make it to charge the sin home upon the man. For God deals with him as a reasonable Creature: Now the very reason of Repentance is a discovery that we make of our great folly in what we have done, and the mischief arising from it, which maketh us ashamed of it, sorry for it, loath our selves by reason of it, confess and bewail it to God, ask his pardon, and draw up a purpose to relinquish it, and never again to have any thing to do with it: there must therefore be such a discovery made to us, and in us, in order hereunto; for we naturally approve of sin, and call good evil, which approbation is that which draws us to the commission of it, which we must be made to see the folly of: and for this Conscience is used, both to put us in mind of the sins, to charge them upon us, to show us the Law, and our danger by it, and all the aggravations attending our ⟨p. 169⟩Sin. Thus God sets mens sins in order before them, Psal. 50.22.
6. In order to this Repentance, God will awaken Conscience, and make it to charge the sin home upon the man. For God deals with him as a reasonable Creature: Now the very reason of Repentance is a discovery that we make of our great folly in what we have done, and the mischief arising from it, which maketh us ashamed of it, sorry for it, loath our selves by reason of it, confess and bewail it to God, ask his pardon, and draw up a purpose to relinquish it, and never again to have any thing to do with it: there must therefore be such a discovery made to us, and in us, in order hereunto; for we naturally approve of sin, and call good evil, which approbation is that which draws us to the commission of it, which we must be made to see the folly of: and for this Conscience is used, both to put us in mind of the sins, to charge them upon us, to shew us the Law, and our danger by it, and all the aggravations attending our ⟨p. 169⟩Sin. Thus God sets mens sins in order before them, Psal. 50.22.