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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 Third Circumstance to aggravate his sin, it was that he did commit the sin after God had given him manifold mercies, so Nathan telleth him, 2 Sam. 12. 8.
Fourthly, Consider this, that David had a Wife of his own, nay many wives of his own, that did greaten Davids sin, and so Nathan told him; for (saith Nathan) There was a poor man who had but▪ one Lamb, and a rich man that had many Lambs, which killed the poor mans Lamb; his meaning was, that David should commit adultery with the wife of that man that had but one wife, when he had many of his own.
Fifth Circumstance, if you consider the time when ⟨p. 66⟩David committed this sin, it was when Davids Armies were lying in the fields, this was done then, which was enough to provoke God to make them turn their backs upon their enemies.