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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
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Thirdly, Take this Direction, that when you confess sin to God and are the most vile in your own eyes, you are then most amiable in Gods eye: Cant. 1. 6. Look not ⟨p. 31⟩upon me because I am black, because the sun hath looked upon me. The Church there confessed to Christ I am black and not comely, she was sun-burnt as she thought. I, but in verse 8. My Love my Dove, thou art the fairest among women: Christ looked on her as the fairest among women: so likewise in Cant. 2. 14. O my Dove, thou art in the clefts of the rock, in the secret places of the stairs: let me see thy countenance, let me hear thy voice; for sweet is thy voice, and thy countenance is comely. When the poor Dove, the Church, lay in a hole under the stairs, bewailing and mourning like a Dove for her sinfulness, O saith Christ to her, let me see thy face, and let me hear thy voice. Christ doth love to hear the moan-makings of his people, Jer. 31. 18. I have surely heard Ephraim, be moaning himself thus, Thou hast chastised me, and I was chastised, as a Bullock unaccustomed to the yoke: turn thou me, and I shall be turned; thou art the Lord my God. It is worth your notice, Job when he was afflicted by God in having botches and boils all over his body, it is said, Job made his complaint to God, Chap. 7. vers. 20. I have sinned, what shall I do unto thee, O thou preserver of men? I have sinned saith Job, but what doth God say of Job? in all this Job sinned not, Job. 1. 22. In all this Job sinned not, nor charged God foolishly. It was not spoken absolutely he sinned not, but the meaning is, he sinned not so as other men sinned. The more you bewail, condole, & confess sin to God, & are by reason thereof vile in your own eyes, the more amiable you are in Gods eyes. And thus I have done with the first part of the Text, I said I will confess my transgression unto the Lord.
Thirdly, Take this Direction, that when you confess sin to God and are the most vile in your own eyes, you are then most amiable in Gods eye: