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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.
2. Take this for thy comfort, O thou perplexed Conscience; it may be when thou art in a corner, none but God and thine own soul together, thou dost aggravate thy sin, and thinkest no mans sin so grievous as thine; then take this for thy comfort, let thy sin be never so great, yet the satisfaction and sufferings of Christ are far greater, The blood of Christ (saith the Apostle) cleanseth us from all sin; the Red Sea did with as much ease drown Pharaoh and all his host, as it could do a single man; the red Sea of Christs blood can drown a whole host and a huge multitude of sins, as well as a small lust: Though thou hast need to shed more tears for sin in a way of contrition; yet Christ need not shed more blood for sin in a way of redemption, for he hath saved them to the utmost that come unto God by him: the Apostle triumphing in the 5. of the Romans, 1he means there, that there is not so much evil in sin to damn us, as there is good in the gift, in Christ, for to save, because thy sin is he guilt of a creature, and Christs satisfaction is the satisfaction of a God; thy sin, the sin of a finite creature, and his sufferings, the sufferings of an infinite Mediator.
2. Take this for thy comfort, O thou perplexed Conscience; it may be when thou art in a corner, none but God and thine own soule together, thou dost aggravate thy sin, and thinkest no mans sin so grievous as thine; then take this for thy comfort, let thy sin be never so great, yet the satisfaction and sufferings of Christ are far greater, The blood of Christ (saith the Apostle) cleanseth us from all sin; the Red Sea did with as much ease drown Pharaoh and all his hoast, as it could doe a single man; the red Sea of Christs blood can drown a whole hoast and a huge multitude of sins, as well as a small lust: Though thou hast need to shed more teares for sin in a way of contri•ion; yet Christ need not shed more blood for sin in a way of redemption, for he hath saved them to the utmost that come unto God by him: the Apostle triumphing in the 5. of the Romans, 1he meanes there, that there is not so much evil in sin to damn us, as there is good in the gift, in Christ, for to save, because thy sin is he guilt of a creature, and Christs satisfaction is the satisfaction of a God; thy sin, the sin of a finite creature, and his sufferings, the sufferings of an infinite Mediator.