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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.
Four Consolations.
First, O know it for thy comfort O thou disconsolate heart, let thy sin be never so great, yet the mercies of God are greater. A learned Interpreter gives to my hand which is his instance, Lord my fault is great, but thy mercies are greater, Beloved, I may say to you, though thy sin be great, yet the mercy of God is greater then thy sin, and thou canst not have so many circumstances to greaten thy sin, as can be produced in God to greaten his own mercy: you shall read what he saith himself in Isa. 44. 22. I have blotted ou• as a thick cloud thy transgressions, and as a cloud, thy sins, return unto me, for I have redeemed thee. Suppose thy sin be not only a little cloud; but suppose it be a great cloud, a thick cloud, saith God, I do not only blot sins out like a little cloud; but I will blot ou• transgressions that are like a thick cloud: great sins as well as small doth the mercies of God cover. The Sea can as well cover great rocks as little pebble stones, high mountains as well as mole-hills: Gods mercy is an Ocean that can cover great enormities as well as lesser infirmities. The glorious body of the Sun in the Heavens, can scatter the greatest mist as well as the thinnest vapours great sins as well as small are pardoned by infinite mercy. It is ⟨p. 71⟩worthy your notice what Moses speaks of the Mercy-seat, It covered the whole Ark wherein the Law was kept. To note (saith a Divine) though thou art a man or a woman guilty of all the Laws breach; not only of one command, but of all the commands, yet the Mercy-Seat covered all the commands; to teach you this, that the mercy of God can pardon the greatest violation of the Law, therefore that wherein the Law was kept was all covered by the Mercy-Seat.
First, O know it for thy comfort O thou disconsolate heart, let thy sin be never so great, yet the mercies of God are greater. A learned Interpreter gives to my hand which is his instance, Lord my fault is great, but thy mercies are greater, Beloved, I may say to you, though thy sin be great, yet the mercy of God is greater then thy sin, and thou canst not have so many circumstances to greaten thy sin, as can be produced in God to greaten his own mercy: you shall read what he saith himselfe in