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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.
If it be so, that Justified persons are bound to make secret confessions unto God: then,
First, Christians keep a heedfulness over your hearts, that you may not let sin go unconfessed; make conscience and be heedful that sin committed by you may not be unconfessed: a sin unconfessed as to the apprehension may be unpardoned; a sin unconfessed cannot be mourned for, cannot be actually repented of. Observe, that a less sin unrepented of, may damn a man, when a greater sin that is confessed to God may be pardoned: if you compare Saul and David together, 1 Sam. 15. 9. But Saul and the people ⟨p. 40⟩spared Agag, and the best of the sheep and of the oxen, and of the fallings, and of the lambs, and all that was good, and would not utterly destroy them: but every thing that was vile, and refuse, that they destroyed utterly. Saul did there commit a far less sin then Davids was, to wit, adultery, Saul did only for his private use spare the fattest of his sheep and oxen▪ it was little or nothing in comparison of Davids sin, yet behold David was pardoned and Saul damned, David had his sin pardoned and Saul not: why? David did confess sin, and Saul not: Saul did delude the reproof of Samuel, and told him the people did it, and not I; Sauls sin unconfessed ruined him: therefore take heed of letting sin go unconfessed, a less sin unconfessed may damn a man, when a greater sin that is confessed may not damn him.
First, Christians keep a heedfulnesse over your hearts, that you may not let sin go unconfest; make conscience and be heedful that sin committed by you may not be unconfest: a sin unconfest as to the apprehension may be unpardoned; a sin unconfest cannot be mourned for, cannot be actually repented of. Observe, that a lesse sin unrepented of, may damn a man, when a greater sin that is confest to God may be pardoned: if you compare Saul and David together,