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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.
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.
For answer in the general, it is not every kind of confession that carries a connection of pardon, Saul confessed his sin, but God did not take away his sin, but took away his Kingdom. It is not every kind of confession that hath a connection with forgiveness of sin, but that confession which hath connection with pardon of sin, it hath six concomitants joined with it.
For answer in the generall, it is not every kind of confession that carries a connexion of pardon, Saul confest his sin, but God did not take away his sin, but tooke away his Kingdom. It is not every kind of confession that hath a connexion with forgivenesse of sin, but that confession which hath connexion with pardon of sin, it hath six concomitants joyned with it.
First it is a free and ingenuous confession, not extorted by force, not with sinful reserves, but a free, a full and ingenuous confession, that is the meaning of that Phrase, Psal. 32. 21. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit is no guile; Guile is not there taken largely in opposition to Hypocrisy, but for a sinful reserve of sin, when a man will not be free and open in confessing his sin unto God; David would freely and fully open himself and confess his evils unto God; that confession that is a free and ingenuous confession, it hath pardon of sin annexed to it; the confessions of them that roll sin under the tongue, as a sweet morsel that they would not part with, have not justification entailed on them; those confessions only are connected with forgiveness that are ingenuous and free.