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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. 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.
I now come to answer the Objections.
Object. 1 The first Objection is this, Why but you will say, what need all this pressing of confession of sin, urging, that there is a necessary connection between mans confession of sin and Gods forgiving sin? what needs confession? doth not Gods eyes run to and fro the earth? doth not God behold the evil and the good, and fully knoweth all the evils under the Sun? what we tell God when he knoweth all things? This Objection the Anabaptists make against confession of sin. For answer.
Object. 1 The first Objection is this, Why but you will say, what need all this pressing of confession of sin, urging, that there is a necessary connexion between mans confession of sin and Gods forgiving sin? what needs confession? doth not Gods eyes run to and fro the earth? doth not God behold the evill and the good, and fully knoweth all the evils under the Sun? what we tel God when hee knoweth all things? This Objection the Anabaptists make against confession of sin. For answer.