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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.
Third Consolation is this, to you that are perplexed in conscience, that you have committed heinous and aggravated sinfulness, yet that Jesus Christ doth wipe away the infamy and the ignominy of thy most horrid and scandalous sins, committed before conversion. Suppose thou hast been a notorious infamous creature; yet Christ takes off the ignominy and the infamy of thy sin, ⟨p. 72⟩when he justifies thy person and doth sanctify thy nature. It is observable of Mary Magdalen, as is conceived she was a notorious whore, every one that saw her knew she was a common harlot; there was a woman that was a sinner, the meaning was, she was an infamous notorious harlot; What is done when Christ converted this woman? Luk. 7. 47. Wherefore I say unto thee, her sins which are many are forgiven, for she loved much. Christ did delight to wipe away the ignominy of her harlotry in her after-life. It is worthy observation, that four women are reckoned in the Genealogy of Christ; what women were they? they were women that were infamous, the best of them did fill into much scandal, and gave much offence: there you find mention of Tamar, Rachab, Ruth, and Bathsheba, no more in the Genealogy but these; what were all these women? Begin with Tamar, she committed uncleanness with her Father in Law, an infamous woman, as you have the story in Gen. 38. 18. And he said, What pledge shall I give thee? and she said, thy Signet, and the Bracelets and thy Staff that is in thine hand; and be gave it her, and came in unto her, and she conceived by him. Then you read of Rachab, a common harlot, in Heb. 11. 31. By faith the Harlot Rachab perished not with them that believed not when she had received the spies with peace, Matth. 1. 5. And Salmon begat Boaz of Rachab, &c. A third woman mentioned in the Genealogy is Ruth, what was she? she was not so infamous as the rest were, yet she ran into a grievous scandal, Ruth came of Moab, whom Lot begat of his own daughter, you have the story in the Book of Genesis 19. 36. Thus were both the daughters of Lot with child by their Father. vers. 37. And the first borne bare a Son, and called his name Moab: What was she? for her person she was a good woman; but as all Divines observe of her, she did an action that had appearance of evil, what did she? read the story in the third of Ruth, beginning at verse 5. &c.