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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. Your nourishing your security, doth but lay in […] make your distress the more terrible. You may enjoy a little present ease by it, but will be forced to pay interest for it afterwards. The calm will be over, and a storm will arise, there is no preventing it: and not only so, but the tempest will be the more impetuous. Your Fair Days are but Weather-breeders, and all the Sins with which you nourish this security will help to aggravate your Guilt, and make the remorses of Conscience more severe. Here then,
4. Your nourishing your security, doth but lay in 〈…〉 make your distress the more terrible. You may enjoy a little present ease by it, but will be forced to pay interest for it afterwards. The calm will be over, and a storm will arise, there is no preventing it: and not only so, but the tempest will be the more impetuous. Your Fair Days are but Weather-breeders, and all the Sins with which you nourish this security will help to aggravate your Guilt, and make the remorces of Conscience more severe. Here then,
1. Be willing to be convinced of you Sin. Have a care of stifling the Convictions which God affordeth you in his Word and Providence: take heed of hardening you• hearts against Counsels, or shutting your eyes upon the light that is offered you, to discover your Sin to you. Whatsoever content you find in thus doing for the present, it will be bitter in the end. God cometh now to show you your Sin in the way of a Treaty of Peace, and saith, as Jer. 2.19. Know that it is an evil and bitter thing. &c. And if you do not hearken, he will show it you another way.
1. Be willing to be convinced of you Sin. Have a care of stifling the Convictions which God affordeth you in his Word and Providence: take heed of hardning you• hearts against Counsels, or shutting your eyes upon the light that is offered you, to discover your Sin to you. Whatsoever content you find in thus doing for the present, it will be bitter in the end. God cometh now to shew you your Sin in the way of a Treaty of Peace, and saith, as