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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.
Case. 3 The third Case of Conscience is this, Whether doth pardon of sin, go before faith and repentance, or else follow after? I do not speak now of the priority of nature, but of the priority of time. This is a useful question.
Case. 3 The third Case of Conscience is this, Whether doth pardon of sin, go before faith and repentance, or else follow after? I doe not speak now of the priority of nature, but of the priority of time. This is a usefull question.
There are many Books in Print, made by several Antinomians that plead for this, and they say that repentance is not a condition to qualify the subject to obtain forgiveness, but only a sign to manifest that sin is forgiven, and that a man is pardoned from all eternity, that before a man believes and repents, he is pardoned: which is a falsehood, for to a believer the Apostle doth confine pardon. Rom. 3. 25. Whom God hath set forth to be a propitiation, through faith in his blood, to declare his righteousness, for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. For sins that are past, those sins you have committed and have repented of, he gives you pardon ⟨p. 98⟩for all them. He that confesseth and forsaketh his sin, shall find mercy, and he that doth not so, shall not find mercy. He that hideth his sin shall not prosper.
There are many Books in Print, made by severall Antinomians that plead for this, and they say that repentance is not a condition to qualifie the subject to obtain forgivenesse, but onely a signe to manifest that sin is forgiven, and that a man is pardoned from all eternity, that before a man beleeves and repents, he is pardoned: which is a falshood, for to a beleever the Apostle doth confine pardon. Rom. 3. 25. Whom God hath set forth to bee a propitiation, through faith in his bloud, to declare his righteousnesse, for the remission of sins that are past, through the forbearance of God. For sins that are past, those sins you have committed and have repented of, he gives you pardon