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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. That hence we Celebrate his Justice in Condemning us. The way for us to obtain Gods pardon, is not only to come to him for it, but to c•me with ropes on our heads, making it to appear that […] only know our selves under a Sentence of Death, but that he would be righteous if he should execute it upon us, Dan. 9.8. Psal 51.4. Nor can there be a right apprehension of Gods Grace, till first there be a confession of our merit: till we believe it was right for us to die, we cannot think it a mere favour for us to live.
3. That hence we Celebrate his Justice in Condemning us. The way for us to obtain Gods pardon, is not only to come to him for it, but to c•me with ropes on our heads, making it to appear that 〈…〉 only know our selves under a Sentence of Death, but that he would be righteous if he should execute it upon us, Dan. 9.8. Psal 51.4. Nor can there be a right apprehension of Gods Grace, till first there be a confession of our merit: till we believe it was right for us to dy, we cannot think it a meer favour for us to live.
4. That we seek this pardon in Christ's name, acknowledging our unworthiness of it. It is through Christ that we obtain forgiveness, and therefore it is to be sought in him, or for his sake: for it is through his Mediation that all this grace cometh to be communicated to us: and we shall never go on his account, till we find that we have no other account to go upon; as long as we have a righteousness or worthiness of our own, Christ is disregarded, Rom. 10.2, 3. That therefore must be rejected, that this may be sought after, Phil 3 9. Now all this involveth in it such a confession as we have been considering of, & cannot be without it.