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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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4. He must turn away from it by an utter rejecting it. Repentance is a turning, and that supposeth two terms, now the term from which, is his sin: and what manner of turning this is, the Word of God acquainteth us. There is a turning from it by abstinence, or leaving off, and that supposeth a being persuaded of the unprofitableness, and vileness of it, which carrieth in it an acknowledgement, Job. 33 27. But there is also in this turning, an abjuration of it; the man is divorced from his sin, he casteth it off, resolving never to •ave to do with it any more, Hos. 14 8 Job 34.31. And this is attended with a self loathing, and hatred of his sin, and putting it to open shame, which must needs carry such a confession in it.
4. He must turn away from it by an utter rejecting it. Repentance is a turning, and that supposeth two terms, now the term from which, is his sin: and what manner of turning this is, the Word of God acquainteth us. There is a turning from it by abstinence, or leaving off, and that supposeth a being perswaded of the unprofitableness, and vileness of it, which carrieth in it an acknowledgment, Job. 33 27. But there is also in this turning, an abjuration of it; the man is divorced from his sin, he casteth it off, resolving n•ver to •ave to do with it any more, Hos. 14 8 Job 34.31. And this is attended with a self loathing, and hatred of his sin, and putting it to open shame, which must needs carry such a confession in it.