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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 third thing to greaten sin by is, when a man doth sin against the checks and rebukes of his own conscience; Conscience saith, do not sin, do not wickedly, and the man saith, I must, I must, I shall lose all else. When Conscience shall arrest thee, and accuse thee of sin, and thou shalt stifle and put by all: this aggravates thy sin.
A third thing to greaten sin by is, when a man doth sin against the checks and rebukes of his own conscience; Conscience saith, doe not sin, doe not wickedly, and the man saith, I must, I must, I shall lose all else. When Conscience shall arrest thee, and accuse thee of sin, and thou shalt stifle and put by all: this aggravates thy sin.
Fourthly, The frequency of the acts of sin, to commit a sin once is not so much, but to fall often into the same sin, this greatens sin.
Fourthly, The frequency of the acts of sinne, to commit a sin once is not so much, but to fall often into the same sin, this greatens sin.
Fifthly, Complacency of heart in sin, when sin is not only the sin of thy practise, and of thy life, but thou delightest in sin; if sin be riveted and rooted in thy heart, ⟨p. 87⟩thou art unclean: canst thou go to God, & say, Lord what grace is here land what mercy is here! that thou hast pardoned great transgressions, and those sins that I can aggravate by many heinous circumstances; I have read my pardon, and yet I have now blotted my pardon: canst thou say, I have sinned, and upon a very trivial occasion and on a small temptation, I am a drudge to the Devil on an easy temptation; when the Devil can draw thee by a silken thread to a sin; O it is a great aggravation, when Conscience arrests thee for sin, and thou wilt still be stifling the cries of conscience: would you greaten sin, you are in a ready way to greaten mercy, & pardoning grace, that is a 4th direction.