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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.
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.
1. Be duly affected with your Guilt. Till we rightly apprehend that, we shall never kindly confess our sin; the want of this is the reason why some confess not at all, and others do it so slightly: whereas, when once the Soul is under the burden of this, and finds himself justly condemned, this will draw forth a free and full Confession, Psal. 51.3.
1. Be duly affected with your Guilt. Till we rightly apprehend that, we shall never kindly confess our sin; the want of this is the reason why some confess not at all, and others do it so slig•tly: whereas, when once the Soul is under the burden of this, and finds himself justly condemned, this will draw forth a free and full Confession,