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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.
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.
Secondly, to admonish thee, though thou beest pardoned; yet such wofull commotions, such dismall fears, will arise in thy conscience, that will make thee verily think thou art not pardoned. Beloved, if you fal into grosse 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 bee 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 soule kept clean; but if thy soul be filled with noysome and nasty lusts, the Spirit of God will not descend on thee; the greater thy sins are, the greater thy sorrowes, anguish and tortures of thy conscience will bee. 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 righteousnesse, that glorious beams shall not reflect on thee: thy falling into grosse sins, may cause wofull commotions, & dismal horrors in thy conscience; Consider, is not this grievous, thou pardoned sinner, to think though this grosse sin may not damn my soule, yet before I dye it will torture my conscience? If I do speak to a troubled conscience there is none in the world wil say, that the sweetnesse and pleasure of sin, can compensate the anguish and torture of conscience which smarteth for sin.