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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. To the awakened and terrified Sinner, whose Conscience is roused, and who hath his sins set in order before him, and is thereupon under fearful agonies in his mind: If you ever hope to find solid comfort, your next business is to come to this Confession: •nd for your quickening and encouragement,
2. To the awakened and terrified Sinner, whose Conscience is roused, and who hath his sins set in order before him, and is thereupon under fearful agonies in his mind: If you ever hope to find solid comfort, your next business is to come to this Confession: •nd for your quickning and encouragement,
Consider;
1. You are in the hand of an Holy God. A God ⟨p. 242⟩who stands on his honour, and will have his Glory from or by all his Creatures: you must therefore voluntarily give it to him, or else he will strain for it, and so recover it upon you. Now all Sin is a falling short of his Glory, Rom. 3.23. It is a dishonouring of him: and no little of his Holiness is displayed in his showing his hatred of it; Hab. 1.13. And you have no other way to glorify this Holiness, but by a free and full Confession.
1. You are in the hand of an Holy God. A God ⟨p. 242⟩