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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.
Third Concomitant of confession that hath pardon annexed to it, is this, That there must be a voluntary and a free leaving of those sins which we do confess. To confess sin, yet to have a loathness in the spirit to part with it, is no real confessing of sin. Prov. 28. 13. He that covereth. his sin shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Confession is there joined to be with a forsaking of sin,1 in case mercy be to be obtained. One calls confession a spiritual vomit; you know a man that is burdened in the stomach, would be willingly rid of that load on his stomach that doth oppress nature; a man that doth confess sin truly would as willing be rid of sin on his Conscience, as a man that is sick at his Stomach would be rid of that burden which doth oppress it, such a confession hath pardon annexed with it.
Third Concomitant of confession that hath pardon annexed to it, is this, That there must be a voluntary and a free leaving of those sins which we doe confesse. To confess sin, yet to have a lothnesse in the spirit to part with it, is no reall confessing of sin. Prov. 28. 13. He that covereth. his sin shall not prosper, but whoso confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Confession is there joyned to be with a forsaking of sin,1 in case mercy be to be obtained. One •cals confession a spirituall vomit; you know a man that is burdened in the stomack, would be willingly rid of that load on his stomach that doth oppresse nature; a man that doth confess sin truly would as willing be rid of sin on his Conscience, as a man that is sick at his Stomach would be rid of that burden which doth oppresse it, such a confession hath pardon annexed with it.
- 1Esta spiritualis vomitns. Bern.