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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. 1 First, It is true, God is not the worse, and hath not the less glory, though thou hast the more sin; yet this is no thanks to a sinner, for a sinner doth what in him lies to take all glory from God, to pull God out of Heaven, it is no thanks to thee that God is never the worse for thy sin.
Ans. 1 First, It is true, God is not the worse, and hath not the lesse glory, though thou hast the more sin; yet this is no thanks to a sinner, for a sinner doth what in him lies to take all glory from God, to pull God out of Heaven, it is no thanks to thee that God is never the worse for thy sin.
Secondly, In a sense God doth receive injury by a mans sin; as first, if you consider the eternal attributes of God in themselves, his Justice, his Goodness, his Wisdom, so God is unchangeably, and immutably blessed: and as our graces can give no additions to his Holiness; so our sin can give no diminution to his glory; but secondly, sin is an injury to God, because God hath less external glory. God by the sin of man is not wronged in his essential Glory, but he is injured in his manifestative Glory.
Secondly, In a sense God doth receive injury by a mans sin; as first, if you consider the eternall attributes of God in themselves, his Justice, his Goodnesse, his Wisedom, so God is unchangeably, and immutably blessed: and as our graces can give no additions to his Holinesse; so our sin can give no diminution to his glory; but secondly, sin is an injury to God, because God hath lesse externall glory. God by the sin of man is not wronged in his essentiall Glory, but he is injured in his manifestative Glory.
Thirdly, Though our sins can do no injury to God, to make God unholy, or to make God unhappy; yet sin doth great injury to your selves; if thou beest sinful, what wilt thou do against God? why, thou canst not bring God out of Heaven, though thou mayest cast thy self into hell, God receives no diminution of his Holiness, of his Wisdom, of his Glory, by thy sinfulness, yet thou shalt not have Glory, Holiness, Happiness, Heaven, nor eternal life, thou shalt receive miseries by thine own sins; And thus I have done with the Doctrinal part of this point; to wit, that there is a necessary connection, between mens confessing sin and Gods act in forgiving of sin.