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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.
The fourth and last case is this, to confess sin to those that have been companions and co-partners with you in sin; in that case you are to go to men to confess sin as well as to God. There are some Interpreters that do expound that place in Jam. 5. 16. Confess your faults one to another, that is, that those that have been partners together in sin, they should go one to another to confess their sins: if you have been a drunkard, go to thy companion, and tell him thy conscience smiteth thee for thy sin; you that have been unclean together, if God hath troubled thy conscience for thy uncleanness, why go to thy partner in sin, and tell her God hath troubled thy conscience for thy lust, and it may be this may awaken her conscience too.
The fourth and last case is this, to confesse sin to those that have been companions and co-partners with you in sin; in that case you are to go to men to confesse sin as well as to God. There are some Interpreters that do expound that place in Jam. 5. 16. Confesse your faults one to another, that is, that those that have been partners together in sin, they should go one to another to confesse their sins: if you have been a drunkard, go to thy companion, and tell him thy conscience smiteth thee for thy sin; you that have been unclean together, if God hath troubled thy conscience for thy uncleanness, why go to thy partner in sin, and tell her God hath troubled thy conscience for thy lust, and it may be this may awaken her conscience too.
Eusebius relates, that John the Evangelist in his journey, returning from Patmos to Ephesus after the death of Domitian was met by a company of thieves; amongst whom was a young man their Captain, whom John did convert, and the story saith, that this young man now converted by Johns wholesome counsel, went to all his fellow thieves, and advised them in the name of Jesus Christ, that they would not walk in that way of wickedness; he was troubled in conscience, and therefore gave them earnest counsel, that as they loved their souls, they would not walk in that way of wickedness; and by that means many of these great robbers became great Converts. In like manner do ye to those that know of your drunkenness, of your adultery, &c. confess your sins, as Demosthenes said to the Harlot, I am not the same man I was: and it may be, that so their consciences may be awakened, and they startled for it, and bethink themselves of their wicked courses, and God