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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. An Acknowledgement of the Fact. For if we deny the thing it self, we by consequence deny the Sin. He that saith, I have not done this, […] omitted that, doth wholly justify himself in th•• regard: for if there be not the act, there cannot be the obliquity of it, which is a Law respect adhering to it. When Gebezi said, Thy Servant went no whither, 2 King. 5.28. He sought so to acqu•• himself from blame.
1. An Acknowledgment of the Fact. For if we deny the thing it self, we by consequence deny the Sin. He that sai•h, I have not done this, 〈…〉 omitted that, doth wholly justifie himself in th•• regard: for if there be not the act, there cannot be the obliquity of it, which is a Law respect adhering to it. When Gebezi said, Thy Servant went no whither, 2 King. 5.28. He sought so to acqu•• himself from blame.
2 An acknowledgement of the Sinfulness of the Fact. Not only that we have done, but have Sinned in to doing; it is one thing to own a fact, another to confess a Sin. There is many a man doth amiss, and will not deny what he hath done, but justifieth himself, stands on his innocency, he hath done well, and needs not be ashamed: this is not to confess sin. So the Pharisees, Luke 16.1• Ye are they that justify your selves; and Ephraim ⟨p. 195⟩Hos. 12.8. In all my labours they shall find no iniquity in me. We shall find a right Confession of Sin so expressed,