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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.
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.
Eightly, 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 controll or rebuke of conscience: Ahaz was troubled by affliction from God, yet conscience never troubled him, for he did yet more wickedly against God.
Ninthly, Though the conscience of a pardoned sinner may be asleep for a time, and may not reprove him for sin committed; yet a good mans conscience when it doth reprove him, it doth check him more out of a sense of sin and the dishonour done to God, then out of fear of hell or any outward judgements; but wicked men are asleep in their consciences, and if conscience doth ever awake, it is not because sin is sin, and because God is dishonoured; but because there is hell for sin, & because there are outward grievous judgements▪ when God breaks men by his judgements, then they will put conscience on work, but never do it out of sense of sin; Take this comparison of Ducks in a pond of water, cast but a little pebble stone into the water, and it will make them dive, but let it rattle and thunder •n the heavens, the Ducks fear not; a Divine makes this a fit ⟨p. 61⟩