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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.
2. To the Converted. You that are in a pardoned state, this Exhortation belongs to you also, and there is never an one of you but may have occasion for making use of it. Remember there is none of us but is daily liable to sin, whiles a deceitful heart within, and a tempting Devil, and a sinning world without, are giving us provocation: and if we are drawn into sin, we are thereby exposed to trouble, it makes a wound, and we may look for pain. The Spirit of God will put us to trouble in order to a kindly repentance; and Satan will molest us, seeking to drive us to despair; and when it is so, the only way in which we can look for stable relief is in a right acknowledging of our sins to God. And here,
2. To the Converted. You that are in a pardoned state, this Exhortation belongs to you also, and there is never an one of you but may have occasion for making use of it. Remember there is none of us but is dayly liable to sin, whiles a deceitful heart within, and a tempting Devil, and a sinning world without, are giving us provocation: and if we are drawn into sin, we are thereby exposed to trouble, it makes a wound, and we may look for pain. The Spirit of God will put us to trouble in order to a kindly repentance; and Satan will molest us, seeking to drive us to despair; and when it is so, the only way in which we can look for stable relief is in a right acknowledging of our sins to God. And here,
1. Keep up the exercise of thus confessing for the preventing of this distress. There are daily failings and follies in us; and these will scratch us, and easily fester, if not heeded. There are that have ⟨p. 244⟩had much quiet and peace, and have not fallen into any scandalous sin, and yet have lost the apprehension of their peace, and are full of trouble; and it hath been occasioned by a neglect of themselves in regard of sins of daily infirmity. Be then advised,
1. Keep up the exercise of thus confessing for the preventing of this distress. There are daily failings and follies in us; and these will scratch us, and easily fester, if not heeded. There are that have