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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. 5 Lastly, Consider this, that the confessing & contesting with corruptions, is in the account of God looked upon as the mortification, Deut. 22. 23. If a Damsel that is a virgin be betrothed unto a husband, & a man find her in the City & lye with her, Vers. 24. Then ye shall bring them both out unto the gate of the City: and ye shall stone them with stones that they dye: the Damsel because she cried not being in the City; and the man, because he hath humbled his neighbours wife: so shalt thou put a way evil from among you. Vers. 25. But if a man find a betrothed ⟨p. 52⟩damosel in the field, & a man force her, & lye with her: then the man only that lay with her shall dye. All the prevalency of sin over thee which is unwilling, God will charge that on the Devil, and account thee guiltless, when it hath not thy consent; when thou labourest to suppress vicious corruptions of the heart, God doth hold thee guiltless, though the Devil may labour to commit a spiritual rape upon thee. It is a text that I have often made use of in the 11. chapter of Leviticus, Divines make great use of it for the comforting of troubled consciences, in the 33. vers.1 And every earthen vessel, whereinto any of them falleth, whatsoever is in it shall be unclean: and ye shall break it. Vers. 36. Nevertheless, a fountain or pit wherein there is plenty of water, shall be clean: but that which toucheth their carcass shall be unclean. The significancy of this Law was this, that if filth do fall upon a pit of water, into a standing pool, because it hath no motion, it cannot purge it self from the filth cast into it, that is unclean: but if an unclean thing be cast into a fountain of water, that cannot be unclean, for it hath a principle in it to purge and free it self from these unclean, things that are cast into it; to show, if sin be in your heart as an unclean thing in a fountain of water, that by reason of your continual motion unto God, your running unto God, you have a principle in you to empty your selves. and to purge your selves and clear your selves from those things which the Devil doth defile you with, now your are not unclean, & this should greatly comfort you.
Answ. 5 Lastly, Consider this, that the co•fessing & contesting with corruptions, is in the account of God lookt upon as the mortification,