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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 5 A fifth defect is this, to confess gross and open sins, but not to confess small and secret evils: we are commanded to keep the Law as the apple of our eye, Prov. 7. 2. Keep my commandments and live, and my Law as the apple of thine eye. Now you know, a man that keeps his eye will not only keep his eye from great blows, but from small motes, which may put out the eye as well as a great blow; men should not only take heed of great blows, great transgressions, but they should take heed of lesser motes, small sins. Now beloved, good men many times commit those sins that are infamous, that the natural light of conscience can control them for, why those evils are complained of, and confessed; but secret evils, wandering thoughts in duties, vanity of mind, the deadness of the heart, emptiness of spiritual meditations, ⟨p. 36⟩inward distrust; these evils are seldom bewailed and confessed: this is many times a Defect found in good men, good men are not so apt to confess omission of good, as commission of evil:
Defect 5 A fifth defect is this, to confesse grosse and open sins, but not to confesse small and secret evils: we are commanded to keep the Law as the apple of our eye, Prov. 7. 2. Keep my commandements and live, and my Law as the apple of thine eye. Now you know, a man that keeps his eye will not only keep his eye from great blowes, but from small motes, which may put out the eye as well as a great blow; men should not only take heed of great blowes, great transgressions, but they should take heed of lesser motes, small sins. Now beloved, good men many times commit those sins that are infamous, that the natural light of conscience can control them for, why those evils are complained of, and confest; but secret evils, wandring thoughts in duties, vanity of minde, the deadnesse of the heart, emptinesse of spiritual meditations, ⟨p. 36⟩inward distrust; these evils are seldome bewailed and confest: this is many times a Defect found in good men, good men are not so apt to confesse omission of good, as commission of evil: