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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.
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1. There are often a great many sins that attend the consummation of that one; which he ought to see distinctly, and confess severally. There were sins that gave occasion to the temptation; though Satan tempts, yet our corruption mostly giveth him the advantage; and that is to be lamented. David on ⟨p. 206⟩the house top suffers his eye to wander, and it is surprised. There were Sins in the entertaining of the temptation, some lust or other not guarded against, but neglected, if not indulged, and that received the sparks, and the heart took fire by it, the sin conceived in it: when Achan saw the wedge of Gold, he coveted it, Josh. 7.21. There are sins that accompany the act it self, besides that the man doth the thing, he useth much fraud in doing it; yea, and he breaks a great many commands in that one act; yea, there are many vile acts in one work of Sin to the finishing of it: and there are Sins that adhere to or follow it when it is done: it leads to more in the covering, and keeping it from taking air: how many did David run himself into upon his Adultery? and as all these are so many Sins, so they require a particular observation and acknowledgement of them.
1. There are often a great many sins that attend the consummation of that one; which he ought to see distinctly, and confess severally. There were sins that gave occasion to the temptation; though Satan tempts, yet our corruption mostly giveth him the advantage; and that is to be lamented. David on ⟨p. 206⟩the house top suffers his eye to wander, and it is surprized. There were Sins in the entertaining of the temptation, some lust or other not guarded against, but neglected, if not indulged, and that received the sparks, and the heart took fire by it, the sin conceived in it: when Achan saw the wedge of Gold, he coveted it, Josh. 7.21. There are sins that accompany the act it self, besides that the man doth the thing, he useth much fraud in doing it; yea, and he breaks a great many commands in that one act; yea, there are many vile acts in one work of Sin to the finishing of it: and there are Sins that adhere to or follow it when it is done: it leads to more in the covering, and keeping it from taking air: how many did David run himself into upon his Adultery? and as all these are so many Sins, so they require a particular observation and acknowledgment of them.