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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, 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. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him, Vers. 17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. When an evil spirit troubled him, that was his conscience, Saul called for music to still the voice of conscience.
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 chec•s, and to still the voice of conscience as reprobates doe: wicked men take sensuall delights to still the checks and voice of conscience, so Saul did, 1 Sam. 16. 14. But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul, and an evill spirit from the Lord troubled him, Vers. 17. And Saul said unto his servants, Provide now a man that can play well, and bring him to me. When an evill spirit troubled him, that was his conscience, Saul called for musick to still the voice of conscience.
Thirdly, Good men care not for jocund company, Mar. 16. 18. For John had said unto Herod, It is not lawful for thee to have thy brothers wife. Vers. 21. And when a convenient day was come, that Herod on his birthday made a supper to his lords, high Captains, & chiefest States of Galilee, &c. Good men dare not avoid a reproving, a searching ministry: as Felix did, Act. 24. 25