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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 6: PROPOSITION VI.
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3. This Guilt is not removed from the Conscience, but by forgiveness. Nothing but a pardon can take it away. I know Sinners have other courses to benumb their hearts, and stupefy the sense of their pain: and sometimes by Gods awful Judgment they obtain to bring themselves into dedolency, it may be carnal confidence, and vain presumption; some mens Consciences are stupefied others secure under a refuge of lies: but this is a false peace; the wound is but skinned over, and the core will fester within, and break out again more fearfully. That man who seeks to quiet his mind from the trouble which Sin hath brought him into, any other way, but by seeking forgiveness, doth but cheat his own Soul, and lay a foundation for his greater sorrow, Isa. 50.11. Till forgiveness cometh, the Wrath of God abideth him, Justice stands engaged to pursue him to death, and the irresistible hand of Omnipotency is ready to do the Execution, nor can any thing remedy this but a free pardon: the man cannot expiate it, all his repentances and reformations will not satisfy for it; till the Blood of Christ be applied to it, it will certainly remain.
3. This Guilt is not removed from the Conscience, but by forgiveness. Nothing but a pardon can take it away. I know Sinners have other courses to benumme their hearts, and stupify the sense of their pain: and sometimes by Gods awful Judgment they obtain to bring themselves into dedolency, it may be carnal confidence, and vain presumption; some mens Consciences are stupified others secure under a refuge of lies: but this is a false peace; the wound is but skinned over, and the core will fester within, and break out again more fearfully. That man who seeks to quiet his mind from the trouble which Sin hath brought him into, any other way, but by seeking forgiveness, doth but cheat his own Soul, and lay a foundation for his greater sorrow, Isa. 50.11. Till forgiveness cometh, the Wrath of God abideth him, Justice stands engaged to pursue him to death, and the irresistible hand of Omnipotency is ready to do the Execution, nor can any thing remedy this but a free pardon: the man cannot expiate it, all his repentances and reformations will not satisfie for it; till the Blood of Christ be applied to it, it will certainly remain.