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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.
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. Prov. 22. 13. He that covereth his sins shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Job 33. 27. He looketh upon men, and if any say I have sinned, and perverted that which was right, and it profited me not, &c. And in the New Testament, in 1 John 1. 9. If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just to forgive us our sins, and to cleanse us from all uurighteousness. Now beloved, put all these four together; the godly have practised this under the Old Testament, and converts under the New, God hath commanded it, and he hath recompensed it; ⟨p. 19⟩therefore those that account confession of sin to be but a legal and servile work deserve reproof.
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 confesse their iniquity, and the iniquity of their fathers, with their trespasse 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 confesse 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.