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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. 2 Again, thou dost mistake the nature of mortification, when thou dost account, that because of the irritations of sin, therefore thou hast not the mortifications of sin. Beloved, lusts may be irritated and stirred up in a mortified heart. Nay sin may most strive while it is mortifying.
Answ. 3 Thirdly, You that plead that sin is not pardoned because it is not mortified, consider for your comfort, that a sin may be fully pardoned, when it is not fully mortified: ⟨p. 51⟩there is this reason to be given for this, because mortification is not so complete and perfect as remission of sin is; remission of sin is a perfect act, and all men, though their graces be inequall, yet their forgiveness and pardon is equal, and alike; because God doth not pardon one sin and not another: but in the work of mortification, it is partly done, partly not done; it is a work begun: therefore a sin may be fully pardoned, when it is not fully subdued, because sanctification and mortification cannot hold equipage and proportion with remission of sin.
Answ. 3 Thirdly, You that plead that sin is not pardoned because it is not mortified, consider for your comfort, that a sin may be fully pardoned, when it is not fully mortified: ⟨p. 51⟩there is this reason to be given for this, because mortification is not so compleat and perfect as remission of sin is; remission of sin is a perfect act, and all men, though their graces be inequall, yet their forgivenesse and pardon is equall, and alike; because God doth not pardon one sin and not another: but in the work of mortification, it is partly done, partly not done; it is a work begun: therefore a sin may be fully pardoned, when it is not fully subdued, because sanctification and mortification cannot hold equipage and proportion with remission of sin.