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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.
A child of God that sins though he be not under ejection ⟨p. 81⟩but of his heritage, yet he is under an interdiction thou mayest have a right to heaven, a right to salvation, yet God hath shut thee up that thou mayest not have the manifestations of a reconciled God towards thee; this is astonishment to thee.
A child of God that sins though hee bee not under ejection ⟨p. 81⟩but of his heritage, yet he is under an interdiction thou mayest have a right to heaven, a right to salvation, yet God hath shut thee up that thou mayest not have the manifestations of a reconciled God towards thee; this is astonishment to thee.
Secondly, to admonish thee, though thou beest pardoned; yet such woeful commotions, such dismal fears, will arise in thy conscience, that will make thee verily think thou art not pardoned. Beloved, if you fall into gross sins, and repel the sanctifying work of the Spirit, God will withdraw the comforting Work of the Spirit. The spirit of God is compared to a Dove; the Dove loves to be in clean places, but if the house be nasty, the Dove goeth away, and will not stay there: Gods Spirit is like a Dove, it loves to have the house of thy soul kept clean; but if thy soul be filled with noisome and nasty lusts, the Spirit of God will not descend on thee; the greater thy sins are, the greater thy sorrows, anguish and tortures of thy conscience will be. Philosophers say, the more vapours are drawn from the earth, the more the light and lustre of the Sun is eclipsed: the more sin doth arise from thy heart to thy life, the more thou darkenest the rising of the Sun of righteousness, that glorious beams shall not reflect on thee: thy falling into gross sins, may cause woeful commotions, & dismal horrors in thy conscience; Consider, is not this grievous, thou pardoned sinner, to think though this gross sin may not damn my soul, yet before I dye it will torture my conscience? If I do speak to a troubled conscience there is none in the world will say, that the sweetness and pleasure of sin, can compensate the anguish and torture of conscience which smarteth for sin.