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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.
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, Psal. 89. 31, 32. If they break my Statutes, and keep not my commandments; then will I visit their transgression with the rod, and their iniquity with stripes. It was not only true of Solomon, but it is spoken of all the Church, If they commit iniquity, I will chastise them with rods. See, here a Solomon may be chastened with rods if he commits iniquity: nay, not only one man, but all the Church, 3. 2. You only have I known of all the families of the earth, therefore I will punish you for all your iniquities. If God be severe, it is with his own people to make them smart for sin: he may spare wicked men, and not punish them here, because he hath his hell for them hereafter: but this shall be all the hell of a godly man, and all their punishment. I, but this is Old Testament, and thus the Antinomians take off, and evade this Scripture: but doth God so in the New Testament?