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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.
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.
Secondly, Consider the place where Adam was, it was in Paradise, and yet there to sin.