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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.
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⟩emblem of a wicked mans conscience, cast but a little pebble stone, some present affliction near a wicked man, and that will make him dive, that will trouble conscience and perplex the man; but let God thunder from heaven, let the Lord declare all the threatenings of his spiritual judgements against sin, how evil sin is, how God is dishonoured by sin, and how the soul is endangered, all these thunderings from heaven cannot make him startle.
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 doe it out of sense of sin; Take this comparison of Ducks in a pond of water, cast but a little peble stone into the water, and it will make them dive, but let it rattle and thunde• •n the heavens, the Ducks fear not; a Divine makes this a fit