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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.
The judgement of a man, if he be a regenerate man, tells him he had rather a thousand times lose the dearest relation, then the manifestation of Gods love unto his soul, he had rather endure the greatest affliction, then to venture willingly on the least sin.
Ans. 4 Fourthly, Consider, that Gods own people have oftentimes expressed more sorrow for outward afflictions, ⟨p. 50⟩then they have done for inward corruptions; there is great reason for it, because things of sense do more affect us, then things of faith do; lay a man upon the Rack, and he shall more roar and cry then any man in the world shall do in the sense of sin, because the pain is sensitive, and it will have more sense of sorrow: it was thus with good men in Scripture. We read much of Davids sorrow, he had no rest in his bones by reason of his sin, yet mark, when David lost Absalom, O what a fit of sorrow was he in, crying out, O my son Absalom, my son, my son Absalom, would God I had dyed for thee, O Absalom, my son, my son. We do not read of such cries, O my soul, my soul, O what shall I do for thee my soul! because the sorrow was sensitive, the loss was sensitive.
Ans. 4 Fourthly, Consider, that Gods own people have oftentimes exprest more sorrow for outward afflictions, ⟨p. 50⟩then they have done for inward corruptions; there is great reason for it, because things of sense doe more affect us, then things of faith doe; lay a man upon the Rack, and he shall more roar and cry then any man in the world shall doe in the sense of sin, because the pain is sensitive, and it will have more sense of sorrow: it was thus with good men in Scripture. We read much of Davids sorrow, he had no rest in his bones by reason of his sin, yet mark, when David lost Absolom, O what a fit of sorrow was he in, crying out, O my son Absolom, my son, my son Absolom, would God I had dyed for thee, O Absolom, my son, my son. Wee do not read of such cryes, O my soul, my soul, O what shall I doe for thee my soul! because the sorrow was sensitive, the losse was sensitive.