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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 › Gods readiness to forgive on Penitent Confession. DOCTRINE.
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.
6. Hence he only expects that you should Confess. This is the great thing he stands upon, your humble and cordial acknowledgement, Jer. 3.13. I know proud nature had rather to do something else than come to this; but God will have us thus to testify our Humiliation, and acknowledgement of his grace to us: if then you can heartily confess, he will readily forgive.
6. Hence he only expects that you should Confess. This is the great thing he stands upon, your humble and cordial acknowledgment, Jer. 3.13. I know proud nature had rather to do something else than come to this; but God will have us thus to testifie our Humiliation, and acknowledgment of his grace to us: if then you can heartily confess, he will readily forgive.
7. He counts himself Glorified by this Confession. ⟨p. 273⟩Josh. 7.19. And indeed by it we acknowledge our own merit, and his Righteousness in the Sentence of Death past upon us, as he, Psal. 51 4. By this we lay our selves down at his fee•, and acknowledge that if ever he forgive us, it must be for his own name sake, and so we ascribe our pardon to him, and give him the praise of his grace.
3. Let it be to direct Sinners in this affair: how Confession is rightly to be made, was opened under the former Doctrine: Only for our help in it, take these Rules.