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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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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,
1. We take the whole blame of it home to our selves. It is I that have done it, it was my wickedness, my vile heart, my woeful corruption; God is clear, Psal 51.4. What though the Devil suggested, cursed companions tempted▪ the World was a sna•e to me? Yet it was my ⟨p. 213⟩naughty heart that complied, or I had not done it. Thus Paul chargeth on sin dwelling in him, Rom. 7.20. That shall have the blame, and it shall not be put off elsewhere.
1. We take the whole blame of it home to our selves. It is I that have done it, it was my wickedness, my vile heart, my woful corruption; God is clear, Psal 51.4. What though the Devil suggested, cursed companions tempted▪ the World was a sna•e to me? Yet it was my ⟨p. 213⟩naughty heart that complied, or I had not done it. Thus Paul chargeth on sin dwelling in him, Rom. 7.20. That shall have the blame, and it shall not be put off elsewhere.