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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
9. This Confession of Sin is a necessary concomitant of the Repentance of Faith. And there are two things wherein this necessity will be discovered.
1. The promise of Forgiveness includes this Hypothesis ⟨p. 225⟩in it. That the Promises of the Covenant do run Hypothetically, is not only manifest from the nature of a Covenant, but also evident from the tenor of Scripture expressions about it, & though there be something else besides confessing put in, yet this is mentioned, in Prov. 28 13. 1 Joh. 1.9. Where is intended a penitent confession, such as accompanieth true Repentance; else Pharaoh may confess, &c. And see how God insists upon it, Jer. 3.12, 13. And not one word of encouragement is given in the whole Book of God, for any to hope for pardon, who will not confess; nay hiding and covering is threatened.
1. The promise of Forgiveness includes this Hypothesis ⟨p. 225⟩in it. That the Promises of the Covenant do run Hypothetically, is not only manifest from the nature of a Covenant, but also evident from the tenour of Scripture expressions about it, & though there be something else besides confessing put in, yet this is mentioned, in Prov. 28 13. 1 Joh. 1.9. Where is intended a penitent confession, such as accompanieth true Repentance; else Pharaoh may confess, &c. And see how God insists upon it,