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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.
It aggravates sin, when God doth punish other men for thy sin, this makes the sins of Rulers to be great sins, because for their sins God may punish the people, as for Davids sin in numbering the people, there did thousands of Israel die of the plague; when thou sinnest in thy family, God may punish all the house for that sin, this you shall ⟨p. 112⟩find an aggravation of Abraham's sin, Gen. 20. 9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my Kingdom a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
It aggravates sin, when God doth punish other men for thy sin, this makes the sins of Rulers to be great sins, because for their sins God may punish the people, as for Davids sin in numbring the people, there did thousands of Israel die of the plague; when thou sinnest in thy family, God may punish all the house for that sin, this you shall ⟨p. 112⟩find an aggravation of Abrahams sin, Gen. 20. 9. Then Abimelech called Abraham, and said unto him, What hast thou done unto us, and what have I offended thee, that thou hast brought on me and on my Kingdome a great sin? thou hast done deeds unto me that ought not to be done.
Sin is an aggravated sin when it is done by a man that lives under much means of grace; where the Gospel is preached, where sin is reproved, there to live in a way of wickedness,1 greatens thy sin: that made a woe to be pronounced by Christ, against Chorazin and Bethsaida, because they had the Gospel, it should be worse with them then with Sodom and Gomorrah.