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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.
Sixthly, A godly man doth not wallow and continue in a custom of sin, that so custom in his sin, might take away conscience of his sin. Ephes. 4. 19. Who being past feeling, 1have given themselves over to lasciviousness, to work all uncleanness with greediness. Wicked men give themselves over to a custom in sin, that so they might not have conscience to smite them for sin. They are like a Smiths dog, a strange dog that comes to a Smiths forge cannot abide to have the sparkles of fire fly about him;2 but that dog that hath always been accustomed to the shop, can sleep still on, and it never troubles him: wicked men are like Smiths dogs used to the shop, though flashes of hell fire are cast about them, yet they sleep still and are not awakened; but godly men do not make use of custom in sin to lull them asleep in their sweet lusts.
Sixthly, A godly man doth not wallow and continue in a custome of sin, that so custome in his sin, might take away conscience of his sin. Ephes. 4. 19. Who being past feeling, 1have given themselves over to laciviousnesse, to work all uncleannesse with greedinesse. Wicked men give themselves over to a custome in sin, that so they might not have conscience to smite them for sin. They are like a Smiths dog, a strange dog that comes to a Smiths forge cannot abide to have the sparkles of fire flie about him;2 but that dog that hath alwayes been accustomed to the shop, can sleep still on, and it never troubles him: wicked men are like Smiths dogs used to the shop, though flashes of hell fire are cast about them, yet they sleep still and are not awakened; but godly men do not make use of custome in sin to lull them asleep in their sweet lusts.
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