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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.
Char. 2 Secondly, A pardoned man doth maintain a holy dread in his heart from committing that sin that he knoweth to be pardoned; a pardoned sinner knoweth this, that before a sin can be pardoned, it did cost Christ much, and will cost himself much; it did cost Christ much blood to expiate the guilt of that sin; it will cost the sinner many tears to destroy the power of that sin; now that sin which he hath smarted for, and Christ hath suffered for, he will not easily commit. Psal. 38. when the Psalmist said, he would declare his iniquity: 1then in Psal. 39. he saith, I will take heed to my ways; as if he should have said,2 I am sorry for my sin, and the Lord hath forgiven me mine iniquity: but here is the result of it, I will take heed to my ways, and of my sinning another time: there is no man that knoweth his sin to be pardoned, that can easily run into the commission of it again,3 it is an excellent expression in the book of Job. If I sin then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I sin, it is not here spoken absolutely and simply; for what man is he that lives and sinneth not? but if I sin as I am charged, that I should sin murmuring and maliciously against God, and persist in my sin, saith Job, If I sin as ye charge me, what follows? then God will not take away mine iniquity, he will not pardon my sin; as Job said of himself, you may say of your selves: if I sin obstinately, and pertinaciously, God will not pardon; thou hast been wicked, & thou wilt be so; thou hast been profane and, thou wilt be so; This is inconsistent with a pardoned state.
Char. 2 Secondly, A pardoned man doth maintain a holy dread in his heart from committing that sin that he knoweth to be pardoned; a pardoned sinner knoweth this, that before a sin can be pardoned, it did cost Christ much, and will cost himself much; it did cost Christ much bloud to expiate the guilt of that sin; it will cost the sinner many teares to destroy the power of that sin; now that sin which he hath smarted for, and Christ hath suffered for, he will not easily commit.