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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.
Now lest this Objection might lurk in the heart of any man that hears me, I will turn the […] And that no man might be presumptuous and entertain false persuasions touching pardon; I shall show you, that though a godly man may have his conscience out of office to smite him for sin; yet in that case there is great difference between a pardoned sinner and an unpardoned, there are these five particular differences.
Now lest this Objection might lurk in the heart of any man that hears mee, I will turn the 〈…〉 And that no man might be presumptuous and entertain false perswasions touching pardon; I shall shew you, that though a godly man may have his conscience out of office to smite him for sin; yet in that case there is great difference between a pardoned sinner and an unpardoned, there are these five particular differences.
First, Though a pardoned man may have sometimes conscience asleep, yet that pardoned man dares not be so bold and adventurous to sin against conscience as wicked men do: you have this fully laid down in Scripture, though but darkly. Lev. 13. 10. And the Priest shall see him, and behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick ••w flesh in the rising, &c. Here were two symptoms of the Plague of Leprosy, the growing of white hair in the so•e, then raw flesh in the rising: the Hebrew Rabbins do understand two things by this Law,
First, Though a pardoned man may have sometimes conscience asleep, yet that pardoned man dares not be so bold and adventurous to sin against conscience as wicked men do: you have this fully laid down in Scripture, though but darkly. Lev. 13. 10. And the Priest shall see him, and behold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick w flesh in the rising, &c. Here were two symptomes of the Plague of Leprosie, the growing of white hair in the soe, then raw flesh in the rising: the Hebrew Rabbins do understand two things by this Law,