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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.
A Third thing considered is this, the Ordination or appointment of a sinner to eternal punishment; and this is fully taken away by pardon, when God doth give remission of sin, he doth take away all obligation to wrath, death, hell, and damnation; and this is properly the nature of forgiveness of sin, it is a gracious and a free act ⟨p. 37⟩of God, whereby he acquits a sinner from eternal guilt and eternal punishment, that is due to all his sin in an eternal punishment, God doth not acquit a pardoned man from external punishments, God may pardon thy sin, yet he may punish thee externally for thy sins, but not eternally; and thus much for the first particular.
A Third thing considered is this, the Ordination or appointment of a sinner to eternall punishment; and this is fully taken away by pardon, when God doth give remission of sin, he doth take away all obligation to wrath, death, hell, and damnation; and this is properly the nature of forgivenesse of sin, it is a gracious and a free act ⟨p. 37⟩of God, whereby he acquits a sinner from eternall guilt and eternall punishment, that is due to all his sin in an eternall punishment, God doth not acquit a pardoned man from externall punishments, God may pardon thy sin, yet he may punish thee externally for thy sinnes, but not eternally; and thus much for the first particular.
Part. 2 The second particular is, What kind of confession of sin is it that hath such a necessary connection with forgiveness of sin, I confessed and thou forgavest.
Part. 2 The second particular is, What kind of confession of sin is it that hath such a necessary connexion with forgivenesse of sin, I confest and thou forgavest.