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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.
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. 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.
2. Omissions; which are comings short in duty ▪ And are against the Affirmative Precepts, which require us to do this or that: when we do it not, it is an Omission. Now though these in common account are rather a not acting than actings, yet in Divinity they come under actual sins, because there is the action of the will in them, which God hath a regard to, and is indeed the principal power in man which the Command hath to do withal: and so God chargeth these Omissions ⟨p. 193⟩or wilfulness, Psal. 81.12. Jer. 6.17. Mat. 23.37.
2. Omissions; which are comings short in duty ▪ And are against the Affirmative Precepts, which require us to do this or that: when we do it not, it is an Omission. Now though these in common account are rather a not acting than actings, yet in Divinity they come under actual sins, because there is the action of the will in them, which God hath a regard to, and is indeed the principal power in man which the Command hath to do withal: and so God chargeth these Omissions