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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.
Sixthly, Pardon of sin is expressed in Scripture, by washing and purging away of sin, Psalm. 51. 2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; he means there in reference to justification; That pardon of sin presents a man to God without spot or wrinkle, or blemish, or any such thing, that though you have many spots in regard of your sanctification, yet you have no spot in regard of your justification.
Sixtly, Pardon of sin is expressed in Scripture, by washing and purging away of sin, Psalm. 51. 2. Wash me throughly from mine iniquity, and cleanse me from my sin; he means there in reference to justification; That pardon of sin presents a man to God without spot or wrinkle, or blemish, or any such thing, that though you have many spots in regard of your sanctification, yet you have no spot in regard of your justification.
Seventhly, pardon of sin is expressed in Scripture, by not remembering of sin; Jer. 31. 34. For I will forgive their iniquity; and I will remember their sin no more. It is an allusion to the Scape-goat, which was to bear the sins of the people on his head, to carry them into the land of forgetfulness; Thus the Lord that remembers all things, that God is said graciously not to remember the sins of his people, not to remember them so, as to damn them for them; he will forget your iniquities and remember them no more.
Seventhly, pardon of sin is expressed in Scripture, by not remembring of sin; Jer. 31. 34. For I will forgive their iniquity; and I will remember their sin no more. It is an allusion to the Scape-goat, which was to bear the sins of the people on his head, to carry them into the land of forgetfulnesse; Thus the Lord that remembers all things, that God is said graciously not to remember the sins of his people, not to remember them so, as to damn them for them; he will forget your iniquities and remember them no more.