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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.
Fourthly, That you might more prize the merits of Christ. Should a man never confess sin to God, he would never see of what value Christs blood is of. A Chirurgeons skill is not seen in healing a slight green wound; but in the healing a man of a deadly disease: Beloved, an ordinary plaster can cure a green wound: if you look on your sins as green wounds, you will never prize Christ, nor put an estimate on his merits and blood, when a man can confess his sin, withal its heinous ⟨p. 42⟩circumstances, this doth greaten the merits of Christ.
Fourthly, That you might more prize the merits of Christ. Should a man never confesse sin to God, he would never see of what value Christs bloud is of. A Chirurgions skill is not seen in healing a slight green wound; but in the healing a man of a deadly disease: Beloved, an ordinary plaister can cure a green wound: if you look on your sins as green wounds, you will never prize Christ, nor put an estimate on his merits and bloud, when a man can confesse his sin, withall its hainous ⟨p. 42⟩circumstances, this doth greaten the merits of Christ.
Fifthly, You are to confess sin, because the confession of sin doth give glory to the attributes of God; it gives glory to his Omniscience, you do by your confessions acknowledge that God seeth your sins: it gives glory to his Patience that he would spare you in the act of sin, that he would not throw you to hell in the very act of sin: it gives glory to his Justice, Psalm 51. 4. Against thee, thee only have I sinned, and done this evil in thy s•ght, that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest, & be clear when thou judgest: it confesseth Gods Mercy, and this Paul doth,