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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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3. We cannot cordially confess other's sins, if we do not first confess our own. If we hide them, we do no• sincerely lay open others: There is not a greater sign of an Hypocrite, than to be busy about other mens Sins, and careless of our own, Mat. 7. begin If our own Sins do not humble us▪ we cannot be graciously affected with the Sins of other men: The High priest was to offer first for his own Sins, Heb. 7.27. Lev. 9.7. If we pray for others, being our selves under Guilt, God will not hear us.
3. We cannot cordially confess other's sins, if we do not first confess our own. If we hide them, we do no• sincerely lay open others: There is not a greater sign of an Hypocrite, than to be buisy about other mens Sins, and careless of our own, Mat. 7. begin If our own Sins do not humble us▪ we cannot be graciously affected with the Sins of other men: The High priest was to offer first for his own Sins, Heb. 7.27. Lev. 9.7. If we pray for others, being our selves under Guilt, God will not hear us.
2. We must charge them home upon our selves. There is a word in our Text omitted by Translators generally as redundant, which yet seems to have Emphasis in it, and is to be read, I will confess upon my sins; or against; hence some read it, against my self; or against my sins. Now we then properly confess against our Sins, when we lay all we can to their charge, to render them vile and odious; we not only confess that we have done the thing, and transgressed the Law by it: But,