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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.
First, In Scripture we find that remission of sin is accompanied with renovation of the heart, if sin be remitted the heart is renewed; they are both joined together, Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
First, In Scripture wee find that remission of sin is accompanied with renovation of the heart, if sin be remitted the heart is renewed; they are both joined together, Rev. 2. 17. To him that overcometh will I give to eat of the hidden Manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knoweth saving he that receiveth it.
Interpreters do give this sense of that promise: you read of two things, a white Stone, and a new name written in that stone; the white stone it is an expression borrowed from the practice of the Gentiles, who in their Judicature did use a white stone: If a malefactor was condemned, and had the sentence of death past upon him, there was given him a black stone in token of condemnation;1 but if a man had a white stone given him it was a token of absolution or pardon. Hence the Heathens named these stones [Greek or Hebrew] acquitting or condemning stones. And so the Poet, In ancient times with stones they did, In judgement seat proceed. By black the guilty were condemned, The just by white were freed.
Interpreters doe give this sense of that promise: you read of two things, a white Stone, and a new name written in that stone; the white stone it is an expression borrowed from the practice of the Gentiles, who in their Judicature did use a white stone: If a malefactour was condemned, and had the sentence of death past upon him, there was given him a black stone in token of condemnation;