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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. 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 ⟨p. 193⟩or willfulness, Psal. 81.12. Jer. 6.17. Mat. 23.37.
2. With respect to the Obliquity of the action. And this is it that rendereth it Sin. No Action can be reckoned sinful, but as it swerves from the Rule of Obedience given unto man, for where there is no Law, there is no Transgression,