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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. Hence there is certainly some blame in you that must be removed, in order to your receiving the promised benefit. There is such a defect in your Confession, as rendereth it another thing from that which the Gospel requires of you: and if you would have him to come to you, and witness his pardoning mercy in you, that must be rectified. It is then necessary that you make a through trial on this account how else shall you know what is your present duty? If you sit down discouraged, you thereby change God; but if you make a through search, you may so be set in the right way.
3. Hence there is certainly some blame in you that must be removed, in order to your receiving the promised benefit. There is such a defect in your Confession, as rendereth it another thing from that which the Gospel requires of you: and if you would have him to come to you, and witness his pardoning mercy in you, that must be rectified. It is then necessary that you make a through tryal on this account how else shall you know what is your present duty? If you sit down discouraged, you thereby change God; but if you make a through search, you may so be set in the right way.
USE. II. For Exhortation to all to the practice of this Duty. And there is argument enough in the Doctrine to move us hereto. If this be the proper & necessary course to relieve us in distress, let us then, whensoever we find any such trouble coming upon us, apply our selves unto this way, as we hope to find any relief against it. And there is none whose condition this may not be, and it is good to be laying in for it. Let this be particularly applied,
USE. II. For Exhortation to all to the practice of this Duty. And there is argument enough in the Doctrine to move us hereto. If this be the proper & necessary course to relieve us in distress, let us then, whensoever we find any such trouble coming upon us, apply our selves unto this way, as we hope to find any relief against it. And there is none whose condition this may not be, and it is good to be laying in for it. Let this be particularly applyed,