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The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin…
The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the privilege of the pardon of sin : together with a discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven : wherein the opinion of the Chiliasts is considered and solidly confuted / being the sum and substance of several sermons preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love ...The penitent pardoned a treatise wherein is handled the duty of confession of sin and the priviledge of the pardon of sin : together with a discourse of Christs ascension into heaven and of his coming again from heaven : wherein the opinion of the Chiliasts is considered and solidly confuted / being the sum and substance of several sermons preached by that faithful servant of Christ, Mr. Christopher Love ...
London: printed for John Rothwell, 1657
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.
Fifthly, A godly man is conscious to confess secret and small sins, as well as gross wickedness. David confessed his pride and carnal confidence in numbering the people, as well as his adultery with Bathsheba: David confessed the cutting off the lap of Sauls garment, as well as spilling the blood of Uriah. But hypocrites confess their gross sins, but not their small sins. Cain confessed his murder, but not his bad offering: they confess their gross sins but not their smaller. Pharaoh confessed his oppression of the children of Israel, but he did not confess the hardness of his heart. But godly men though ⟨p. 22⟩they have not so many gross and open evils, yet small and secret evils pinch their consciences, and trouble their spirit. Those evils which will not break a wicked mans sleep, will break their hearts: what though they have not uncleanness in the flesh? what though they have escaped the pollutions of the world? yet they know they have secret and inward defilements on the spirit: and these they bewail, and these they acknowledge to God.
Fifthly, A godly man is conscious to confesse secret and small sins, as well as grosse wickednesse. David confest his pride and carnal confidence in numbring the people, as well as his adultery with Bathsheba: David confest the cutting off the lap of Sauls garment, as well as spilling the blood of Vriah. But hypocrites confesse their grosse sins, but not their small sins. Cain confest his murder, but not his bad offering: they confesse their grosse sins but not their smaller. Pharaoh confest his oppression of the children of Israel, but he did not confesse the hardness of his heart. But godly men though ⟨p. 22⟩they have not so many grosse and open evils, yet small and secret evils pinch their consciences, and trouble their spirit. Those evils which will not break a wicked mans sleep, will break their hearts: what though they have not uncleannesse in the flesh? what though they have escaped the pollutions of the world? yet they know they have secret and inward defilements on the spirit: and these they bewaile, and these they acknowledge to God.