A49255:267
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 Secondly, Thou that makest this Objection, take this for thy comfort, consider that many pardoned sinners through heedlessness and in-observancy have not their judgements enlightened to discern sin; and if the judgement hath not an eye to see sin, the conscience will never have an hand to smite for sin: it is a Proverb, What the eye sees not, the heart rues not: nothing that is unknown, can be the object of desire, neither can any thing that is unknown be the object of sorrow; unknown miseries we weep not for, but miseries we know, those we mourn for: if a mans judgement be not enlightened to see sin, he can never mourn for it; he may live and dye in a sin that his judgement is not convinced of to be a sin: thus the godly in the Old Testament lived in the sin of Polygamy, marrying of many wives, they knew not it was a sin, but they took liberty to take as many wives as they would.
Answ. 2 Secondly, Thou that makest this Objection, take this for thy comfort, consider that many pardoned sinners through heedlesnes and in-observancy have not their judgements inlightned to discern sin; and if the judgement hath not an eye to see sin, the conscience wil never have an hand to smite for sin: it is a Proverb, What the eye sees not, the heart rues not: nothing that is unknown, can be the object of desire, neither can any thing that is unknown be the object of sorrow; unknown miseries we weep not for, but miseries we know, those we mourn for: if a mans judgement be not inlightned to see sin, he can never mourn for it; he may live and dye in a sin that his judgement is not convinced of to be a sin: thus the godly in the Old Testament lived in the sin of Polygamie, marrying of many wives, they knew not it was a sin, but they took liberty to take as many wives as they would.
A godly man that holds an error, conscience may never smite him for it, because his judgment is mistaken his judgment thinks he holds the truth, and therefore conscience cannot smite him for holding an error