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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, Hast thou fallen into any gross and aggravated guilt? follow this Rule, Labour that the greater thy sin and thy unkindness hath been to God, thou express now the greater love to Jesus Christ for pardoning mercy: O labour thou that hast great sins pardoned, that thou mayest have great love issued out to Jesus Christ; Christ did not simply ask Peter, Simon Peter lovest thou me? out goeth higher, Peter doest thou love me more then these? there was this reason why Christ should ask him this Question, because Peter had sinned against Christ more then all the disciples had, therefore Peter must love Christ more.
Secondly, Hast thou fallen into any grosse and aggravated guilt? follow this Rule, Labour that the greater thy sin and thy unkindnesse hath been to God, thou express now the greater love to Jesus Christ for pardoning mercy: O labour thou that hast great sins pardoned, that thou mayest have great love issued out to Jesus Christ; Christ did not simply aske Peter, Simon Peter lovest thou me? out goeth higher, Peter doest thou love me more then these? there was this reason why Christ shold aske him this Question, because Peter had sinned against Christ more then all the disciples had, therfore Peter must love Christ more.
Do I speak to any that have been taler by the head in sin, then any of their neighbours have been? O! if thou hast sinned much, love much; the greater the sin, the greater the pardon must be, and therefore on thy part the greater must thy love be to Jesus Christ; this is held out plain in that familiar parable that Christ useth, Luk. 7. 41. There was a certain creditor, Which had two debtors, the one ought five hundred pence, and the other fifty. Vers. 42. And when they had nothing to pay, he frankly forgave them both; Tell me therefore, which of them will love him most, Vers. 43. Simon answered and said, I suppose that he to whom he forgave most: and he said unto him, thou hast rightly judged. The meaning of this is, the two debtors are two sorts of sinners, he that owed a little sum he could not pay his debt: though thou hast but few little sins, yet thou canst not satisfy for it. He that owned much was a great sinner, as Mary Magdalen: It may be God hath forgiven thee thy hundred of sins, & thy five hundred of sins: O make good this Parable