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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.
Answ. 1 First, Know and consider that mortifying grace is a consequent of pardon of sin, and therefore doth not go before it: Micah •. 18. He will turn again he will have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities &c. the ⟨p. 51⟩promises follows, I will subdue thine iniquity, saith God, be not troubled, I have pardoned thee.
Answ. 1 First, Know and consider that mortifying grace is a consequent of pardon of sin, and therefore doth not go before it: Micah •. 18. He will turn again he will have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities &c. the ⟨p. 51⟩promises followes, I will subdue thine iniquitie, saith God, be not troubled, I have pardoned thee.
Answ. 2 Secondly, Thou that makest this Objection against thy self, it may be thou mistakest the nature of mortification, and takest mortification to be that which it is not: as first, it may be a godly Christian doth extend mortification beyond its bounds, as thus, it may be thou doest extend mortification not to a gracious suppression of sin, but to a total extirpation of sin, and thinkest that because sin is not removed, it is not subdued. Now this is a mistake: mortification doth not extend so far, but it extends to an abolition of the dominion of sin; not of the being of sin: before we dye we shall never be absolutely rid of the being of sin; sin will be in the heart. As the tree in Dan. 4. 14. He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches; nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth: So sin in the heart, the branches are cut off by mortification, the luxuriant buddings, and blossomings, and breakings forth of sin, they are cut off; but the stump, the root of original sin, from which all sin flows and grows that remains