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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, though God afflicts none sinless, yet sometimes it may be for trial and not for any particular sin; so was Jobs affliction, it was not for sin, but for trial, to try Jobs grace.
Secondly, though God afflicts none sinlesse, yet sometimes it may be for triall and not for any particular sin; so was Jobs affliction, it was not for sin, but for triall, to try Iobs grace.
Thirdly and chiefly, it is apparent from the Scriptures, that pardoned sinners may be punished for their sins. Would not this be partial for a father to beat the servant for a fault, yet not beat the child for a worse fault? Now the Lord will not leave such a plea as this in any wicked mans heart. In all the Kingdoms of the world, where sword, where pestilence, where famine, and where plagues have been, the good have fallen with the bad; ⟨p. 95⟩the righteous have fallen by the sword, as well as the wicked: the reason is, that the world should not say that he is a partial God. Now to satisfy and to establish your thoughts in this point, I shall give you two express testimonies in the Scripture, that God doth punish his people for sin, though their sins be pardoned. The one is of David, 2 Sam. 12. 14. Howbeit, because by this deed thou hast given great occasion to the enemies of the Lord to blaspheme, the child also that is born unto thee, shall surely dye. I will punish thee in thy child, I will pardon thy sin, yet I will punish thy sin; so likewise in 2 Sam. 7. 14. 15. I will be his father, and he shall be my son: If he commit iniquity I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men, but my mercy shall not depart away from him, &c. A promise to Solomon, I will be his father, and he shall be my son: but if he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with rods. And the Psalmist, when he quotes this expression, refers it to all the godly,