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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.
2. By the extenuating thy sin, thou doest lessen the value of Christs blood.
2. By the extenuating thy sin, thou doest lessen the value of Christs bloud.
3. Thou wilt lessen thine own repentance and humiliation: for what man will labour after great humiliation for small transgressions? therefore there is a world of wrong done to thy own soul, when God hath pardoned great transgressions, if thou shouldst extenuate and lessen the greatness of thy evils,
3. Thou wilt lessen thine own repentance and humiliation: for what man will labour after great humiliation for small transgessions? therfore there is a world of wrong done to thy own soule, when God hath pardoned great transgressions, if thou shouldst extenuate and lessen the greatness of thy evils,
Sixthly, Content not your selves with slight and superficial repentance so falling into great and gross evils, ⟨p. 88⟩be not like Lewis the eleventh King of France, when he did an evil against his conscience, he pulled off his hat and took his Crucifix and cried God mercy for what he had done; so many men, if they can but cry God mercy in ordinary and general terms, they think they have made a Compensation to Divine Justice. And thus have I done with the second branch of the use in these six particulars.
Sixthly, Content not your selves with slight and superciall repentance so falling into great and gross evils, ⟨p. 88⟩