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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.
Ans. 2 Secondly, The Scripture makes a fair consistency between mans confessing sin, and Gods free Grace in forgiving sin: the Scripture makes a double consistency. First in regard of the Precept that doth enjoin and command confession. 2. In regard of the means that this is a way to procure pardon.
Ans. 2 Secondly, The Scripture makes a fair consistency between mans confessing sin, and Gods free Grace in forgiving sin: the Scripture makes a double consistency. First in regard of the Precept that doth enjoyn and command confession. 2. In regard of the means that this is a way to procure pardon.
First, In regard of the command, God doth command us to confess sin; Now no command of God that he ⟨p. 40⟩would have us do, can derogate from his free grace, therefore surely this command can no way eclipse the freeness of grace in what he will do.
First, In regard of the command, God doth command us to confesse sin; Now no command of God that he ⟨p. 40⟩would have us doe, can derogate from his free grace, therefore surely this command can no way eclipse the freenesse of grace in what he will doe.
Secondly, In regard of means as a way to get pardon: God is the efficient cause, and Christ is the meritorious cause of pardon; but yet confession of sin is that cause which Logicians call (causa sine quâ non) without which pardon of sin shall never be obtained,