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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 second Case of conscience is this, if God pardons a sin, whether or no doth he afflict and punish men for it after it is forgiven? this is an useful question: and the reason is, because there are errors and mistakes about it; mistakes on the right hand and on the left. The Antinomians say that a pardoned sinner is never afflicted for sin; and say they, to say that a man whose sin is forgiven is afflicted for sin, doth derogate from the satisfaction and sufferings of Christ. Then the Papists say, that men are afflicted and punished for sin, and that these punishments are for satisfaction to divine Justice, and they are meritorious: and on this ground they bottom Purgatory, that after a man is dead, he must for some years lye in Purgatory, to satisfy for some notorious gross sin done in his life.
A second Case of conscience is this, if God pardons a sin, whether or no doth he afflict and punish men for it after it is forgiven? this is an usefull question: and the reason is, because there are errors and mistakes about it; mistakes on the right hand and on the left. The Antinomians say that a pardoned sinner is never afflicted for sin; and say they, to say that a man whose sin is forgiven is afflicted for sin, doth derogate from the satisfaction and sufferings of Christ. Then the Papists say, that men are afflicted and punished for sin, and that these punishments are for satisfaction to divine Justice, and they are meritorious: and on this ground they bottome Purgatory, that after a man is dead, he must for some years lye in Purgatory, to satisfie for some notorious grosse sin done in his life.
Now Beloved to keep you from swerving either way, I shall lay down the true genuine state of this Question, and resolve it to you.