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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 5: PROPOSITION V.
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PROPOSITION V.
In our Confession, they must be our own sins, and we must charge them home upon our selves. There are two things in this.
1. They must be our own sins. The Psalmist puts this title of property on his Sin four times in this verse; and see 2 Chron 6.29. Ezek. 7.16. We are indeed called to confess the Sins of others on a double account;
1. As we are concerned with them. We have not ⟨p. 210⟩only our Personal, but our Relative concern too about Sin. Confession is a proper adjunct of Prayer, and must accompany the petitions in which we seek mercy of God, and the averting of his Judgments. Now there is the consideration of a people as one body, in which every person is a Member; and there are the Sins of others, which we have avoided, that lie upon the Land, and the whole is obnoxious by them: such was Achan's sin,