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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.
Lastly, Holy confession of sin in godly men, leaves a holy awe, and a dread upon the heart, making them afraid to commit the sin after they have confessed it; making them afraid to come into the occasion of that sin which they have confessed; thus you read, Acts 19. 18. And many that believed came, and confessed and showed their deeds. Verse 19. Many also of them which used curious Arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men, &c. He speaks of their sorcery and witchcraft; they would burn their books, that there should not be an occasion of committing ⟨p. 24⟩again that sin which they confessed unto God. Beloved, this is holy confession; when thou shalt come to God on thy knees in secret, and there bewail a lust: and thy confession leaves a holy awe and dread on thy soul to take heed on that sin thou hast confessed.
Lastly, Holy confession of sin in godly men, leaves a holy awe, and a dread upon the heart, making them afraid to commit the sin after they have confest it; making them afraid to come into the occasion of that sin which they have confest; thus you read, Acts 19. 18. And many that believed came, and confessed and shewed their deeds. Verse 19. Many also of them which used curious Arts, brought their books together, and burned them before all men, &c. He speaks of their sorcery and witchcraft; they would burn their books, that there should not be an occasion of committing ⟨p. 24⟩again that sin which they confest unto God. Beloved, this is holy confession; when thou shalt come to God on thy knees in secret, and there bewail a lust: and thy confession leaves a holy awe and dread on thy soul to take heed on that sin thou hast confest.
A godly man may commit a sin which he hath confessed, but yet he retains a fear and awe upon his heart, that it shall not prevail over him in his practice.