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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.
Answ. 3 A third answer, Though no man can be pardoned for his confession, yet no man shall have pardon without confession: Repent that your sins may be blotted out, Act. 3. 19. No blotting out of sin without repentance; there must be a sorrow & bewailing of sin before it can be pardoned; and that Christ was broken for sin, it will no ways exempt you from being broken for sin; though Christ was a man of sorrow, & all in a way of satisfaction, yet you must shed tears for sin in a way of contrition and humiliation.
Answ. 3 A third answer, Though no man can be pardoned for his confession, yet no man shall have pardon without confession: Repent that your sins may be blotted out, Act. 3. 19. No blotting out of sin without repentance; there must be a sorrow & bewailing of sin before it can be pardoned; and that Christ was broken for sin, it will no ways exempt you from being broken for sin; though Christ was a man of sorrow, & all in a way of satisfaction, yet you must shed teares for sin in a way of contrition and humiliation.
Answ. 4 Lastly, This connection between confessing sin and Gods forgiving sin, is not as if our confession did bear any proportion in a way of satisfaction to Gods forgiving of sin; though God doth forgive sin upon confession, yet it is not for confession; there is more evil in thy sin that is an offence to God, then there can be good in thy confession; And thus much for the third particular, that there is a connection between Gods act of forgiving sin and our confessing sin.
Answ. 4 Lastly, This connexion between confessing sin and Gods forgiving sin, is not as if our confession did bear any proportion in a way of satisfaction to Gods forgiving of sin; though God doth forgive sin upon confession, yet it is not for confession; there is more evill in thy sin that is an offence to God, then there can be good in thy confession; And thus much for the third particular, that there is a connexion between Gods act of forgiving sin and our confessing sin.