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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, That no gross sin committed by a justified person can make void his former pardon; A rule among the Schoolmen: the work of God cannot be made void or frustrated by the work of man, Election is a work of God, Redemption the work of God, Justification the work of God, which cannot be made void by the work of man; therefore if God hath elected thee, redeemed thee, justified and pardoned thee, the incursion of gross evils cannot restrain thee of former pardon; It is true, sin may make void thy former comforts, thy former evidences; gross sins may lay wast thy conscience; but they cannot lay wast the grace, and the mercies of God; herein you may be greatly comforted and established.
Fourthly, That no grosse sin committed by a justified person can make void his former pardon; A rule among the Shoolemen: the worke of God cannot bee made void or frustrated by the worke of man, Election is a work of God, Redemption the work of God, Justification the worke of God, which cannot be made void by the work of man; therefore if God hath elected thee, redeemed thee, justifyed and pardoned thee, the incursion of grosse evills cannot restrain thee of former pardon; It is true, sinne may make void thy former comforts, thy former evidences; gross sins may lay wast thy conscience; but they cannot lay wast the grace, and the mercies of God; herein you may be greatly comforted and established.
Fifthly, Take this for thy comfort, though thou dost fall into gross and aggravated guilt, yet such is the goodness and mercy of God; that he orders thy very falling into sin to turn to thy good: I do not mention this to any that they should be emboldened to fall into sin because it may turn to good; O it is God that orders a mans fall for his good: A threefold good that God doth to his people out of their very sins, God doth not only do good to his people by their afflictions, but he doth good to his people by their very sins.
Fifthly, Take this for thy comfort, though thou dost fall into grosse and aggravated guilt, yet such is the goodness and mercy of God; that he orders thy very falling into sin to turn to thy good: I doe not mention this to any that they should be imboldened to fall into sin because it may turn to good; O it is God that orders a mans fall for his good: A threefold good that God doth to his people out of their very sins, God doth not onely doe good to his people by their afflictions, but he doth good to his people by their very sins.