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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.
Now (beloved) when you have instances in the Old Testament, and many examples in the New, why then should we blot out so useful a part of Gods worship as this, of confession to God in secret?
Thirdly, God doth command confession of sin unto him. Jer. 3. 12, 13. Go and proclaim these words towards the North, and say, Return thou back-sliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you, for I am merciful saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. Only acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, &c.
Thirdly, God doth command confession of sin unto him. Jer. 3. 12, 13. Goe and proclame these words towards the North, and say, Return thou back-sliding Israel, saith the Lord, and I will not cause mine anger to fall upon you, for I am merciful saith the Lord, and I will not keep anger for ever. Onely acknowledge thine iniquity, that thou hast transgressed against the Lord thy God, &c.
Fourthly, God both in the Old Testament and in the New, hath annexed many gracious promises to a sincere confession of sin unto him: in the Old Testament, Lev. 26. 40. If they shall confess their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespass which they trespassed against me, and that also they have walked contrary unto me. Vers. 41. And that I also have walked contrary unto them, and have brought them into the land of their enemies: if then their uncircumcised hearts be humbled, and they then accept of the punishment of their iniquity, Then will I remember my Covenant with Jacob, &c. If they confess their iniquity, I will remember them. And there are gracious promises made to such as confess their sins; and it is certain that a man cannot have a promise to any thing which is a duty.