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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
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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 Dan. 7. 12. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season, and time; Though thou beest a mortified man, yet mortification doth only take away the dominion of sin, and not the life of it; for it is prolonged for a season.
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 totall 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 farre, 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 cryed 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; neverthelesse 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 originall sin, from which all sin flowes and growes that remaines