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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.
Fourthly, There was curiosity, for David did a needless act; for what need David know every particular man in his kingdom. Joab said to David, 1 Chron. 21. 4. Why doth my Lord require this thing? why wilt thou muster up thy forces in a time of peace? we are all true and loyal to thee: yet vain curiosity made David do it.
Fourthly, There was curiosity, for David did a needlesse act; for what need David know every particular man in his kingdome. Ioab said to David, 1 Chron. 21. 4. Why doth my Lord require this thing? why wilt thou muster up thy forces in a time of peace? we are all true and loyall to thee: yet vain curiosity made David do it.
Fifthly, there was the sin of sacrilege, this Zanchius notes: for when the people were numbered, there was to be given for the use of the Sanctuary, half a shekel, as you have the story, Exod. 30. 12. When thou takest the sum of the children of Israel, after their number, then shall they give every man a ransom for his soul unto the Lord, when thou numberest them, that there be no plague amongst them, when thou numberest them, Vers. 13. This they shall give, every one that passeth among them that are numbered, half a shekel after the shekel of the Sanctuary: compare this with Exod. 38. 25. And the silver of the ⟨p. 77⟩that were numbered of the Congregation, was an hundred talents, and a thousand seven hundred and threescore and fifteen shekels after the shekel of the Sanctuary, &c. David, some suppose, did defraud the Sanctuary of that money.
Fifthly, there was the sin of sacriledge, this Zanchius notes: for when the people were numbred, there was to be given for the use of the Sanctuary, halfe a shekel, as you have the story,