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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 2: PROPOSITION II.
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.
5. If we would obtain pardon of him for any sin, we must confess it. That he expecteth it of us, is evident both by the precept and the examples left on Scripture record. If we confess, he is faithful and just to forgive, 1 Joh. 1.9. And if the smallest needs forgiveness, it cannot be exempted from our Confession: Our Confession then must comprehend in it;
1. Adams first Transgression. For, though that Sin, as to the act of it, determined in our First Parents, they only did personally commit it, yet it is in truth the Sin of the whole World, and all mankind, and every individual, have their share in ⟨p. 198⟩it. The whole species was comprehended in them. Adam represented and transacted for his Posterity, and so that one sin in which he violated the Covenant of Works, became theirs by an holy and righteous Imputation; that Sin, and the Guilt of it is to be acknowledged by us all. We are assured of our interest in it, Rom. 5.12. 1 Cor. 15.22. And God expects to be justified in this regard.
2. Original Sin also cometh within it, That Sin which hath pervaded our nature, and polluted it. We must confess that we have it in us, & brought it into the World; that we were born with it, so he, Psal. 51.5. That it cleaves to us, and we are made by it polluted things,