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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.
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⟩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 shewing his hatred of it; Hab. 1.13. And you have no other way to glorifie this Holiness, but by a free and full Confession.
2. He is yet a merciful God. Though you have greatly dishonoured, and grievously provoked him by sin, yet there is mercy with him; he hath published and proclaimed this mercy of his […] the Gospel, and inviteth weary and burdened Sinners to come to him for it,