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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.
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.
First it is a free and ingenuous confession, not extorted by force, not with sinfull 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 Hypocrisie, but for a sinfull reserve of sin, when a man will not be free and open in confessing his sin unto God; David would freely and fully open himselfe and confesse 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 rowle sin under the tongue, as a sweet morsell that they would not part with, have not justification entailed on them; those confessions onely are connected with forgiveness that are ingenuous and free.
Secondly, that confession which hath pardon annexed to it is a penitential confession, a confession that hath sorrow of heart mixed with it, Ps. 38. 18. For I will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin. True confession of sin is rather a voice of mourning, then a voice of words, it hath ever a sorrow and grief of heart joined with it; That prescription, that God gave to the Leper