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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.
Reas. 1 First, They are to confess sin unto God, because holy confession gives a great deal of case and holy quiet unto the mind of a sinner; concealed and indulged guilt, contracts horror and dread on the conscience. As wind when it is dispersed and diffused through the air doth little hurt; but when it is concealed in the bowels of the earth, it makes ruptures and earthquakes, overthrows things up and down: Sin when it is unconfessed, concealed, and indulged, makes heart-quakes in the conscience, and contracts a great deal of horror and terror, Psal. 32. vers. 3.1 When J kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my roaring all the day long.
Reas. 1 First, They are to confesse sin unto God, because holy confession gives a great deale of case and holy quiet unto the mind of a sinner; concealed and indulged guilt, contracts horror and dread on the conscience. As wind when it is disperst and diffused through the air doth little hurt; but when it is concealed in the bowels of the earth, it makes ruptures and earthquakes, overthrows things up and down: Sin when it is unconfest, concealed, and indulged, makes heart-quakes in the conscience, and contracts a great deal of horror and terror, Psal. 32. vers. 3.1 When J kept silence, my bones waxed old, through my roaring all the day long.
Meaning, David when he kept close his sin; he roared by reason of horror; when he did not pour out his soul in confession to God; but when a man shall with an ingenuous clearness confess his evils unto God, this doth alleviate his mind, and lighten his burden, and ease his conscience,