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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 2 A second Defect in the confession of sin to God is this, when men in prayer do confess many sins to God, yet do leave out their master and predominant sins: many men are large in confession, yet do leave out their master sins. Moses, though a good man, yet was faulty in this regard; God commanded him to go to Egypt to deliver his people, but saith Moses, I am not eloquent, I am of a slow speech; he did complain of a natural defect, but he did not complain of a spiritual defect, but God did answer all his pleas in Exod. 4. 19. And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead that sought thy life. Vers. 20. And Moses took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an ass, and he returned to the land of Egypt. So that God here put his finger upon the sore: Moses complained of the peoples incredulity, of his own natural infirmity, but Moses did not complain of his slavish fear, that if he should go to Egypt there were men that would kill him; till God did assure Moses that those men that sought to kill him were dead, Moses would not go: here a good man would not confess his slavish fear, that he did fear death; therefore he would not go on Gods command. Beloved, this is a Defect that doth many times cleave to godly men to leave out their predominant sins, and to confess only those sins which are sins of infirmity; and herein men do but dissemble with God, and like the lapwing cry loudest when farthest from the nest.
Defect 2 A second Defect in the confession of sin to God is this, when men in prayer do confesse many sins to God, yet do leave out their master and predominant sins: many men are large in confession, yet do leave out their master sins. Moses, though a good man, yet was faulty in this regard; God commanded him to go to Egypt to deliver his people, but saith Moses, I am not eloquent, I am of a slow speech; he did complain of a natural defect, but he did not complain of a spiritual defect, but God did answer all his pleas in Exod. 4. 19. And the Lord said unto Moses in Midian, Go, return into Egypt: for all the men are dead that sought thy life. Vers. 20. And Moses took his wife, and his sons, and set them upon an asse, and he returned to the land of Egypt. So that God here put his finger upon the sore: Moses complained of the peoples incredulity, of his own natural infirmity, but Moses did not complain of his slavish fear, that if he should go to Egypt there were men that would kill him; till God did assure Moses that those men that sought to kill him were dead, Moses would not go: here a good man would not confesse his slavish fear, that he did fear death; therefore he would not go on Gods command. Beloved, this is a Defect that doth many times cleave to godly men to leave out their predominant sins, and to confesse only those sins which are sins of infirmity; and herein men do but dissemble with God, and like the lapwing crie lowdest when farthest from the nest.