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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 point was this, That such are the riches of Gods pardoning grace, that he forgives his people the great sins that are clothed with many heinous and aggravated circumstances. Now lest any might abuse this Doctrine, and suck poison from these flowers that are m•st sweetly scattered up and down the Scripture, I shall labour so to handle the matter, as to keep off presumptuous men that they be not emboldened in a wicked course of sin. Therefore my use shall be to two sorts of men,
The point was this, That such are the riches of Gods pardoning grace, that hee forgives his people the great sins that are cloathed with many hainous and aggravated circumstances. Now lest any might abuse this Doctrine, and suck poyson from these flowers that are m•st sweetly scattered up and down the Scripture, I shall labour so to handle the matter, as to keep off presumptuous men that they be not emboldned in a wicked course of sin. Therefore my use shall be to two sorts of men,
Use. 1 First of all, it shall be directed to moral and civill honest men: if God doth forgive men great sins▪ clothed with many heinous and aggravated circumstances,1 as Davids sin was, as Peters sin was, and Paul sins were, then I have great hopes of pardon; mine are but sins of an ordinary incursion, therefore I have hopes my sins are pardoned, because they have not been crying great sins.
Use. 1 First of all, it shall bee directed to morall and civill honest men: if God doth forgive men great sinnes▪ cloathed with many haino•s and aggravated circumstances,1