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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 Consideration is this, That small and little sins ⟨p. 75⟩may be aggravated and clothed with such circumstances, as may make them great, two instances in Adams sin, and Davids sin.
Third Consideration is this, That small and little sins ⟨p. 75⟩may be aggravated and cloathed with such cricumstances, as may make them great, two instances in Adams sin, and Davids sin.
First, Adams sin, you would account it a small matter to eat an apple or some other fruit; but yet that small fact of eating the forbidden fruit, was so clothed with many circumstances, which made it a great and grievous sin: for,
First, Adams sin, you would account it a small matter to eat an apple or some other fruit; but yet that small fact of eating the forbidden fruit, was so cloathed with many circumstances, which made it a great and grievous sin: for,
First, if you consider the state of Adam, he was not as we are; but Adam was a perfect and an innocent creature: and it is a greater evil for a perfect creature to sin, then for us that are imperfect.
First, if you consider the state of Adam, he was not as we are; but Adam was a perfect and an innocent creature: and it is a greater evill for a perfect creature to sin, then for us that are imperfect.