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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.
Defect 1 The first Defect in confession of sin unto God is this, that when men come to confess sin to God, they have such a barrenness and confusion on their spirits, that they cannot call to remembrance their particular sins to confess them.1 Mr. Hildersham hath a good note descanting on them words in 1. John 1. 8. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us. Saith he, if we say that we have no sin, there is no man so gross, to say that he hath no sin, for his own practise will give the lie to his tongue; but it is when we come to God, we do as in effect say so, when we do not know what sin to confess to God; we are so confused and heedless in observing our own ways, that we do not know what to confess in prayer unto God, and that the Apostle condemns. It is storied of Donatus the father of those Heretics that Augustine did write against, that he said to God, Non habeo Dominae quod ignoscas, I am guilty Lord of nothing for thee to pardon.
Defect 1 The first Defect in confession of sin unso God is this, that when men come to confesse sin to God, they have such a barrennesse and confusion on their spirits, that they cannot call to remembrance their particular sins to confesse them.1 Mr. Hildersham hath a good note descanting on them words in 1. John 1. 8. If we say we have no sin we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us. Saith he, if we say that we have no sin, there is no man so grosse, to say that he hath no sin, for his own practise will give the lie to his tongue; but it is when we come to God, we doe as in effect say so, when we doe not know what sin to confesse to God; we are so confused and heedlesse in observing our own waies, that we doe not know what to confesse in prayer unto God, and that the Apostle condemns. It is storied of Donatus the father of those Heretiques that Augustine did write against, that he said to God, Non habeo Dominae quod ignoscas, I am guilty Lord of nothing for thee to pardon.
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