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The greatest concern in the world. A short and plain essay, to answer that…
The greatest concern in the world. A short and plain essay, to answer that most concerning and all concerning enquiry, What must I do to be saved? : Published, with a design to assist the addresses of good men unto their neighbours, whom they press to mind, the one thing that is needful.
printed by T. Green, 1718
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Secondly; This must be done; You must make a Penitent Confession of your Sins; a Remorseful Confession of them. All your Known Crimes, you must as Particularly as you can, Enumerate with shame and grief before the Lord. You must be able to say; Psal. 51.3. I Acknowledge my Transgressions, and my Sin is ever before me. Your Acknowledgement of your Secret Sins, must be only to the LORD: But where your Sins are Known, where your Neighbours have been either Sufferers by, or Witnesses of ⟨p. 18⟩your Miscarriages, They also should Know that you Acknowledge them.
Secondly; This must be done; You must make a Penitent Confession of your Sins; a Remorseful Confession of them. All your Known Crimes, you must as Particularly as you can, Enumerate with shame and grief before the Lord. You must be able to say; Psal. 51.3. I Acknowlege my Transgressions, and my Sin is ever before me. Your Acknowlegement of your Secret Sins, must be only to the LORD: But where your Sins are Known, where your Neighbours have been either Sufferers by, or Witnesses of ⟨p. 18⟩your Miscarriages, They also should Know that you Acknowlege them.
Thirdly; This must be done ▪ Every way of Sin must be Abhorred, must be Avoided, must be Forsaken. Amendment is Essential to Repentance: Except you Reform, you don't Repent. So you are warned of God; Prov. 28 13. He that Confesseth and Forsaketh shall find Mercy. If you go on in any Evident way of Sin, you will find it a Way of Death, a Path of the Destroyer; it will bring to a Damnation that slumbereth not. Very Tremendous Things will be done to those Enemies of God, who, Go on still in their Trespasses. Have you done Amiss? You must say, I will do so no more. You must not Persist in what you have done.