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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. 3 A third Character of a person whose sin is forgiven is this, to have unfeigned sorrow and remorse of heart for the commission of sin; sins forgiven are steeped in blood, ⟨p. 48⟩and soaked in tears: sorrow before pardon is servile and legal; none can sorrow in an Evangelical manner, but he who is brought into a pardoned estate. Indeed there may be a fore't, and a constrained sorrow which may come from the eyes of unpardoned men: there is this difference between the one and the other. Tears in an unpardoned sinner come from him like water in a Still; but Tears in a pardoned sinner come from him like water from the clouds: water will drop from the Still, but it is forced by keeping close the Still, and by the heat of the fire? the fire of hell may make a wicked man aghast: but sorrow for sin in a pardoned man, is like water from the clouds that is not forced but doth naturally drop down.
Char. 3 A third Character of a person whose sin is forgiven is this, to have unfained sorrow and remorse of heart for the commission of sin; sins forgiven are steept in bloud, ⟨p. 48⟩and soakt in teares: sorrow before pardon is servile and legal; none can sorrow in an Evangelical manner, but he who is brought into a pardoned estate. Indeed there may be a fore't, and a constrained sorrow which may come from the eyes of unpardoned men: there is this difference between the one and the other. Teares in an unpardoned sinner come from him like water in a Still; but Tears in a pardoned sinner come from him like water from the clouds: water will drop from the Still, but it is forc't by keeping close the Still, and by the heat of the fire? the fire of hell may make a wicked man agast: but sorrow for sin in a pardoned man, is like water from the clouds that is not forced but doth naturally drop down.
Char. 4 A fourth Character, He in whom sin is pardoned, is a man in whom is no guile,