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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 › Right Confession, its nature and usefulness. DOCTRINE. › Proposition 1: PROPOSITION I.
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2. Actual Sin may also come under a double Consideration, viz. the Act, and the Obliquity of it: and respect is to be had to both in the right stating of the matter.
1. In respect of the Act it self. For though no Act, as it is an Act, is Sin, but hath a natural Goodness; yet actual Sin hath an Act which is the subject in which it is, and so there can be no Confession of Sin, without acknowledging the Act. Now in Divinity there are two sorts of Actions in which Sin is to be observed;
1. Commissions; which are usually called Transgressions. When the man doth something that ought not to be done: and this properly respects the Negative Precepts which do prohibit the doing of them. The Law saith, thou shalt not Kill, Steal, &c. when men do such things, these are Sins of Commission: these ought not to be done; the doing of them therefore is sinful.
1. Commissions; which are usally called Transgressions. When the man doth something that ought not to be done: and this prop••ly respects the Negative Precepts which do prohibit the doing of them. The Law saith, thou shalt not Kill, Steal, &c. when men do such things, these are Sins of Commission: these ought not to be done; the doing of them therefore is sinful.