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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, there is no promise in all Scripture, that God will pardon a sin before repentance for sin: but there are many promises that God will pardon when they do repent, Jer. 23. 8. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. Many promises, that when men repent of sin they shall have •in pardoned: but there is never a promise that hath any show, that before a man repents he shall have pardon.
Secondly, there is no promise in all Scripture, that God will pardon a sin before repentance for sin: but there are many promises that God will pardon when they doe repent, Jer. 23. 8. And I will cleanse them from all their iniquity whereby they have sinned against me, and I will pardon all their iniquities whereby they have sinned, and whereby they have transgressed against me. Many promises, that when men repent of sin they shall have •in pardoned: but there is never a promise that hath any shew, that before a man repents he shall have pardon.
Thirdly, the Scripture doth lay all men under a state of wrath and condemnation, till they believe and repent ⟨p. 99⟩unless ye repent ye shall all likewise perish, Luk. 13. 5. I tell you, Nay: but except ye repent, ye shall all likewise perish. Ephes. 2. 3. Among whom also we had our conversation in times past in the lusts of our flesh, fulfilling the desires of the flesh, and of the mind, and were by nature the children of wrath, even as others, Vers. 12. that at that time ye were without Christ, being aliens from the Common-wealth of Israel, and strangers from the covenants of promise, having no hope, and without God in the world. No hope of heaven, no hope of pardon in an unconverted state. Now by the sufferings of Christ, we receive pardon; a man unrepenting, is a man without Christ, therefore surely without pardon. Therefore the Antinomians doctrine doth bolster men in profaneness: saying (in a manner) to a drunkard, go on in drunkenness, for God hath pardoned thee from all eternity: but I say, Repent therefore, that your sins may be blotted out. There are not only these express testimonies in Scripture, and reasons grounded thereupon; but manifold and gross absurdities that would follow if you should deny this truth. This would follow then, that there is no difference between a converted man, and a man unconverted: and is not this gross to say that there is as much comfort to a man before he is converted, as to one after he is converted?