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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.
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 ⟨p. 38⟩in the Law, that he should be cleansed from his leprosy and in Levit. 13. 45. And the Leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry unclean, unclean, is worth your notice, he was to cry twice, I am unclean, Lam unclean; there was this confession, but what was joined with his confession before he could be cleansed? Two things he must do, First, he must rent his clothes; to note, that there must be brokenness of heart, and sorrow of heart joined with confession of sin. Secondly, he must cover his lip, to note shame that must be mingled with his sorrow, to show, that to us that have an unclean leprosy of sin in us, the crying I am unclean, unclean, is not enough; but there must be the renting of the heart, and shame of face; these must be mingled with those confessions that have a connection with forgiveness.
Secondly, that confession which hath pardon annexed to it is a penitential confession, a confession that hath sorrow of heart mixt 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 ⟨p. 38⟩in the Law, that he should be cleansed from his leprosi• and in Levit. 13. 45. And the Leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and hee shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry unclean, unclean, is worth your notice, he was to cry twice, I am unclean, Lam unclean; there was this confession, but what was joined with his confession before hee could be cleansed? Two things he must do, First, he must rent his clothes; to note, that there must be brokennesse of heart, and sorrow of heart joyned with confession of sin. Secondly, he must cover his lip, to note shame that must be mingled with his sorrow, to shew, that to us that have an unclean leprosie of sin in us, the crying I am unclean, unclean, is not enough; but there must be the renting of the heart, and shame of face; these must be mingled with those confessions that have a connexion with forgivenesse.