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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.
the story saith, that she came alone at midnight to Boaz, there was an action full of infamy, which was a shameful thing that ⟨p. 73⟩a woman should come to a man lying alone. Secondly, she came and lay by him in the night season, but it is true, the Scripture c•ears her for any thing following, vers. 14. And she lay at his feet until morning, and she rose up before one could know another: there was no vanity, no folly and no evil, yet it was a grievous scandal for a woman to be with a man, and Boaz did fear the scandal of it too; yet this woman is reckoned in the Genealogy of Christ. The fourth woman is Bathsheba, she was unclean with David. What is the Mystery of this? truly all Interpreters give this; There are but four women named in the genealogy, all of them blame-worthy, some in a higher and some in a lower degree; and it is recorded that Christ came from these four, to take off the ignominy and infamy of your sins that you have fallen into before conversion: suppose God should suffer thee to fall into execrable villainies, real and sound conversion to God takes off the reproach and ignominy; therefore Christ to take off the ignominy and reproach from these women would honour them so far, as to reckon them in his own Genealogy.
the story saith, that she came alone at midnight to Boaz, there was an action full of infamy, which was a shamefull thing that ⟨p. 73⟩a woman should come to a man lying alone. Secondly, she came and lay by him in the night season, but it is true, the Scripture c•ears her for any thing following, vers. 14. And she lay at his feet untill morning, and she rose up before one could know another: there was no vanity, no folly and no evill, yet it was a grievous scandall for a woman to be with a man, and Boaz did fear the scandall of it too; yet this woman is reckoned in the Genealogy of Christ. The fourth woman is Bathsheba, she was unclean with David. What is the Mystery of this? truely all Interpreters give this; There are but four women named in the genealogy, al of them blame-worthy, some in a higher and some in a lower degree; and it is recorded that Christ came from these four, to take off the ignominy and infamy of your sins that you have fallen into before conversion: suppose God should suffer thee to fall into execrable villanies, reall and sound conversion to God takes off the reproach and ignominy; therefore Christ to take off the ignominy and reproach from these women would honour them so far, as to reckon them in his own Genealogy.