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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.
A 7. difference, That though the conscience of a pardoned ⟨p. 60⟩sinner doth not smite him for sin, yet is it sooner and easier awakened and raised out of a dead sleep, then the conscience of a wicked man; a look from Jesus eye, and the Cock crowing made Peter weep, he went out and wept bitterly; a rebuke to David from the Prophet, made him cry out, Lord I have sinned. A reprobate conscience is not so easily put into office, it doth not reprove him, there must be much ado and great labour taken before his dead conscience will hear the rebukes of the Word, there is more ado with a wicked man to have his conscience in office then with a godly man.
A 7. difference, That though the conscience of apardoned ⟨p. 60⟩sinner doth not smite him for sin, yet is it sooner and easier awakened and raised out of a dead sleep, then the conscience of a wicked man; a look from Jesus eye, and the Cock crowing made Peter weep, hee went out and wept bitterly; a rebuke to David from the Prophet, made him cry out, Lord I have sinned. A reprobate conscience is not so easily put into office, it doth not reprove him, there must be much adoe and great labour taken before his dead conscience will hear the rebukes of the Word, there is more adoe with a wicked man to have his conscience in office then with a godly man.
Eighthly, There is this difference, though the conscience of a good man be asleep for a time, and doth not smite him for sin, yet some time before he dyes, his conscience shall smite him for sin; there is no godly man in the world but under known sins, if his conscience hath not smitten him, his conscience shall smite him before he dyes; but wicked men live & dye in sin & never have the control or rebuke of conscience: Ahaz was troubled by affliction from God, yet conscience never troubled him, for he did yet more wickedly against God.