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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 4: PROPOSITION IV.
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.
That we must confess our sins fully, without any hiding or reserves. The Psalmist contents not himself with saying, that he resolved to confess his sin, and that he did actually acknowledge his transgression and his sin; but he adds, that he had not hidden it. Though there was a time when he kept sinful silence, yet when he was brought to confess, he did it plumply, he made a through work of it, and it was his transgressions, not this or that, but all: And there are two things pointed at in it.
1. That we must confess all without any reserves.
2. We must confess them to the height, without any extenuation.
1. We must confess all our sins without any reserves. That there is no sort or degree exempted, hath been already observed; but there are also individuals in these kinds, which we should have a regard to in our acknowledgement; and though it be not possible for us to come at all, yet we should be as particular as we may. Compare, Psal. 19.12. with