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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.
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,
1. To the Unconverted: Such as are yet strangers ⟨p. 239⟩to forgiveness. And there are two sorts, to whom distinctly.
1. To the secure Sinner; who feeleth no trouble on his Conscience, but all is quiet, and so he looks upon himself unconcerned in this affair.