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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.
Sort 1 First, The Antinomists, who account it a legal and a servile work, for believers to be bemoaning themselves unto God, and confessing sin unto God. And therefore in their prayers (when you may be cast to hear them in public) all their expressions in prayer, are either extolling the Majesty of God, the excellency of Christ, the glory of Heaven, the riches of Grace, but not a word of laying low the creature in prayer; but raptures in prayer, and the extolling of divine Majesty: these are all the ⟨p. 19⟩dials of expressions which they use in prayer.
Sort 1 First, The Antinomists, who account it a legal and a servile work, for believers to be bemoaning themselves unto God, and confessing sin unto God. And therefore in their prayers (when you may be cast to hear them in publick) all their expressions in prayer, are either extolling the Majesty of God, the excellency of Christ, the glory of Heaven, the riches of Grace, but not a word of laying low the creature in prayer; but raptures in prayer, and the extolling of divine Majesty: these are all the ⟨p. 19⟩dials of expressions which they use in prayer.
Now to overthrow this vain conceit of the Antinomians, consider,
First, Confession of sin to God hath been practised by all the godly under the Old Testament; and therefore why should it not be used under the New?