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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 of the Pharisee, in Luk. 18. I thank God, saith he, I am no extortioner, no drunkard, no adulterer; I am not this nor that: the Pharisee▪ was a man that never broke out into scandalous sins; what was the conclusion? saith Christ, that he that justified himself was not justified; but the Publican was justified rather then the Pharisee: the Publican that had fallen into extortion, by his office he was tempted unto much extortion, he was a wicked liver, and yet went away justified. O! a civill honest Pharisee▪ a Pharisee that never brake out into scandal, yet was not justified: a Publican that was a known and infamous sinner, went away justified.
First of the Pharisee, in Luk. 18. I thanke God, saith he, I am no extortioner, no drunkard, no adulterer; I am not this nor that: the Pharisee▪ was a man that never broke out into scandalous sins; what was the conclusion? saith Christ, that he that justified himself was not justified; but the Publican was just•fied rather then the Pharisee: the Publican that had fallen into extortion, by his office he was tempted unto much extortion, he was a wicked liver, and yet went away justified. O! a civill honest Pharisee▪ a Pharisee that never brake out into scandall, yet was not justified: a Pulican that was a known and infamous sinner, went away justified.
2 The prodigal son that ran away from his father, spent all his substance, and went to live among hogs and swine, in this world, that is wicked men, yet this man a pardoned man. The young man who told Christ that he kept all Gods commands from his youth was an unjustified man, yet the prodigal that was riotous from his, youth & confessed his sin, became a justified man, I am persuaded the very intent of these Scriptures, is for this end; that civil moral men should not presume on pardon, merely on their civil morality.