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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.
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.
Answ. First, Negatively, we do not confess sin because only of Gods Sovereignty, because God will have us to confess sin, Gods Sovereignty may command us and say, You shall come with ropes about your Necks, and I will make you lie in the dust.
Answ. First, Negatively, we doe not confesse sin because only of Gods Soveraignty, because God will have us to confesse sin, Gods Soverainty may command us and say, You shal come with ropes about your Necks, and I will make you lie in the dust.