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Englands antidote against the plague of civill war presented in a sermon before the…Englands antidote against the plague of civill warre presented in a sermon before the…
Englands antidote against the plague of civill war presented in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons on their late extraordinary solemn fast, October 22, 1644 / by Edmund Calamy ...Englands antidote against the plague of civill warre presented in a sermon before the Honourable House of Commons on their late extraordinary solemn fast, October 22, 1644 / by Edmund Calamy ...
London: printed by A. Miller for Christopher Meredith, 1652
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.
The third link of the golden chain of Repentance, is an inward 1sincere endeavour to forsake all sin everlastingly. All poenitentia is in vain without resipiscentia, [Greek or Hebrew] in vain without [Greek or Hebrew]. It is to no purpose to repent for your sins, unless you repent from your sins; for a man to say he repents of sin, and yet doth not forsake it, he speaks a contradiction. As for a man to say that he is changed from a fool to a wise man, and yet remains a fool, he saith that which is a contradiction; so for a man to say he repents of his swearing, and yet to swear; to say he is turned from his adultery, and yet remains an adulterer, he saith a contradiction: as Tertullian saith excellently, He that repents with a contradiction, God will pardon him with a contradiction: thou repentest, and yet continuest in thy sins; God will pardon thee, and yet send thee to hell; there is a pardon with a contradiction.
The third link of the golden chain of Repentance, is an inward 1sincere endeavour to forsake all sin everlastingly. All poenitentia is in vain without resipiscentia, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in vain without 〈non-Latin alphabet〉. It is to no purpose to repent for your sins, unlesse you repent from your sins; for a man to say he repents of sin, and yet doth not forsake it, he speaks a contradiction. As for a man to say that he is changed from a fool to a wise man, and yet remains a fool, he saith that which is a contradiction; so for a man to say he repents of his swearing, and yet to swear; to say he is turn'd from his adultery, and yet remains an adulterer, he saith a contradiction: as Tertullian saith excellently, He that repents with a contradiction, God will pardon him with a contradiction: thou repentest, and yet continuest in thy sins; God will pardon thee, and yet send thee to hell; there is a pardon with a contradiction.
- 1The third link of the chain of repentance, an inward forsaking of sin.