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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.
3. The man must judge himself for it. In true Repentance there is a formal process in the man against himself. Conscience doth, in the name of God, call a Court in the man; he Summons himself to the Tribunal; he indicts himself for sinning against God, in transgressing his Holy Law, chargeth it on himself as done voluntarily, by the naughtiness of his own heart, finds himself Guilty, and ratifieth the threatening of Gods Word against himself; all this is contained in that one Hypothesis, 1 Joh. 3.20. If our heart condem• us. The word is used for the pronouncing the ⟨p. 227⟩Sentence on a Guilty Malefactor Now what evidence doth the man use in this process but his own Conscience, which is done by a […] and full confession, acknowledging that he hath done the thing, and done sinfully in it, Psal. 106.6.
3. The man must judge himself for it. In true Repentance there is a formal process in the man against himself. Conscience doth, in the name of God, call a Court in the man; he Summons himself to the Tribunal; he indicts himself for sinning against God, in transgressing his Holy Law, chargeth it on himself as done voluntarily, by the naughtiness of his own heart, finds himself Guilty, and ratifieth the threatning of Gods Word against himself; all this is contained in that one Hypothesis, 1 Joh. 3.20. If our heart condem• us. The word is used for the pronouncing the ⟨p. 227⟩Sentence on a Guilty Malefactor Now what evidence doth the man use in this process but his own Conscience, which is done by a 〈…〉 and full confession, acknowledging that he hath done the thing, and done sinfully in it, Psal. 106.6.