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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.
First, by way of Comfort.
The first answer is this, That it is clear by an induction of particular instances in Scripture, that pardoned men have fallen often into the same sin, this is most clear.
First, if you refer it to spiritual sins, to evils that are of daily incursion, evils that are inward and spiritual, spiritual pride, distempered passion, omission in duties; a pardoned man may many times fall in such sins as these.
First, if you referre it to spirituall sins, to evils that are of daily incursion, evils that are inward and spirituall, spirituall pride, distempered passion, omission in duties; a pardoned man may many times fall in such sins as these.
Further, it is clear by induction of instances in Scripture that a pardoned man may fall into gross sins, oftentimes into the same sin: some instances, one is of Joseph, it was a gross sin for Joseph to swear an heathenish Oath, by the life of Pharaoh,