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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.
Secondly, There was to be quick and raw flesh in the ⟨p. 56⟩rising, they understand it to be adventurousness in a sinner to commit sin against a raw, and a galled, and a rebuked conscience. Another man might have scabs all over his flesh, yet he was not to be unclean. Vers. 13. Then the Priest shall consider: and behold, it the leprosy have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague, it is all turned white, he is clean. Yet if a man had rawness in the sore, he was to be unclean: to note, that a man may have many sins, yet not be unclean in Gods sight; but if he sin against the very dictates of conscience, and be bold and adventurous against the gawlings of a perplexed conscience, he shall be unclean.
Secondly, There was to be quick and raw flesh in the ⟨p. 56⟩rising, they understand it to be adventurousnesse in a sinner to commit sin against a raw, and a gawled, and a rebuked conscience. Another man might have scabs all over his flesh, yet he was not to be unclean. Vers. 13. Then the Priest shall consider: and behold, it the leprosie have covered all his flesh, he shall pronounce him clean that hath the plague, it is all turned white, he is clean. Yet if a man had rawnesse in the sore, he was to be unclean: to note, that a man may have many sins, yet not be unclean in Gods sight; but if he sin against the very dictates of conscience, and be bold and adventurous against the gawlings of a perplexed conscience, he shall be unclean.
Secondly, Take this for a difference, though the conscience of a pardoned man may not for a time smite him for sin committed, yet he doth not take that course to stifle the checks, and to still the voice of conscience as reprobates do: wicked men take sensual delights to still the checks and voice of conscience, so Saul did, 1 Sam. 16. 14