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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, to admonish thee, consider, that thou doest run a very dangerous and desperate hazard to venture upon the commission of sin upon presumption of pardon: Wilt thou sin, that may be as painful to thy conscience as the breaking of thy bones, because Christ can set thee in joint again? Wilt thou sin and cut gashes in thine own flesh, because thou knowest the Blood of Christ to be a sovereign balsam to cure thy wounds? for by his stripes we are healed.1
Fourthly, to admonish thee, consider, that thou doest run a very dangerous and desperate hazard to venture upon the commission of sin upon presumption of pardon: Wilt thou sin, that may be as painfull to thy conscience as the breaking of thy bones, because Christ can set thee in joynt again? Wilt thou sin and cut gashes in thine own flesh, because thou knowest the Bloud of Christ to be a soveraign balsam to cure thy wounds? for by his stripes we are healed.1
- 1Direction to. great sinners
I now come to give you something by way of direction: Hast thou been a man that God hath left to thine own hearts lust? thou hast not only sin, but the iniquity of sin, sin aggravated; then,
I now come to give you something by way of direction: Hast thou been a man that God hath left to thine own hearts lust? thou hast not onely sin, but the iniquity of sin, sin aggravated; then,