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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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2. See the danger you are in by reason of it. If Sin lieth at the door, you are in a perilous Condition, there is no safety, the wrath of God is out against you, and Vengeance hangs over your heads: Holiness, Justice, Truth, stand engaged to do Execution ⟨p. 241⟩upon you, and all the fearful Curses written in the Book of God are your portion, and how can you Escape?
2. See the danger you are in by reason of it. If Sin lyeth at the door, you are in a perilous Condition, there is no safety, the wrath of God is out against you, and Vengeance hangs over your heads: Holiness, Justice, Truth, stand engaged to do Execution ⟨p. 241⟩upon you, and all the fearful Curses written in the Book of God are your portion, and how can you Escape?
3. Be persuaded how vain it is for you to go about to cover it. Who ever did so and prospered? What a madness is it to think to hide the most secret enormities from the eyes of God, who is Omniscient, and knows you a great deal more intimately and throughly then you do your selves, and can, when he will make your sin to find you out?
3. Be perswaded how vain it is for you to go about to cover it. Who ever did so and prospered? What a madness is it to think to hide the most secret en•rmities from the eyes of God, who is Omniscient, and knows you a great deal more intimately and throughly then you do your selves, and can, when he will make your sin to find you out?