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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. 4 Fourthly, You that plead that you are not pardoned, & the guilt of sin flies in your faces because it is not subdued.
I answer, That it is an evident token that Christ hath disposest the soul of the power of sin, or taken away the power of sin, seeing the Devil doth labour to possess you so often with the guilt of sin in a way of temptation. Observe if a man did lye under the power of sin, the Devil would not suggest to that man the guilt of sin; because then it would awaken a mans conscience, and make a poor sinner look after Jesus Christ, and after heaven, and pardon. Pharaoh doth not trouble Israel till he be gone forth of Egypt. Therefore a sinner under the power and dominion of sin, shall not be troubled under the Devil about the guilt of sin. The Devil had rather play at small game then not to game: if he cannot damn a man by keeping him under the power of sin, he will terrify him by troubling him with the guilt of sin.
I answer, That it is an evident token that Christ hath dispossest the soul of the power of sin, or taken away the power of sin, seeing the Devill doth labour to possesse you so often with the guilt of sin in a way of temptation. Observe if a man did lye under the power of sin, the Devill would not suggest to that man the guilt of sin; because then it would awaken a mans conscience, and make a poor sinner look after Jesus Christ, and after heaven, and pardon. Pharah doth not trouble Israel till he be gone forth of Egypt. Therefore a sinner under the power and dominion of sin, shall not be troubled under the Devill about the guilt of sin. The Devill had rather play at small game then not to game: if he cannot damn a man by keeping him under the power of sin, he will terrifie him by troubling him with the guilt of sin.