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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 3 A third Defect in confession of sin to God is this, to have the heart to hanker after the committing of those ⟨p. 35⟩sins you do confess. Austin doth ingenuously acknowledge this of himself, saith he, I did often beg strength of God against the sin of incontinency, yet had often an unwillingness in my heart that God should hear my prayers, lest I should leave my sins. Indeed conviction of conscience doth force to a confession of sin, yet the strength of thy depraved affection doth make thee hanker after the sin, and cause a loathness to leave it.
Defect 3 A third Defect in confession of sin to God is this, to have the heart to hanker after the committing of those ⟨p. 35⟩sins you do confesse. Austin doth ingenuously acknowledg this of himself, saith he, I did often beg strength of God against the sin of incontinency, yet had often an unwillingnesse in my heart that God should hear my prayers, lest I should leave my sins. Indeed conviction of conscience doth force to a confession of sin, yet the strength of thy depraved affection doth make thee hanker after the sin, and cause a lothnesse to leave it.
Defect 4 A fourth Defect in confession of sin to God is this, to confess to God the sins of your life, but not the sins of your nature: many men will be large in confessing the sins of their life, but seldom or never bewail the sins of nature, that vicious inclination in the heart to sin; very few but David in the Old Testament, and Paul in the New, who did sufficiently confess original sin, David in the Old Testament,1 Psal. 51. there he begins to bewail the root of those sins which he was guilty of. So Paul in