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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.
Seas. 1 First, When God doth bring a believer under some grievous outward affliction, then is a fit time for him to confess sin to God. It is a saying of Gregory, Sins do ⟨p. 9⟩blind the eyes of men when they sin,1 yet those eyes come to be opened by the punishment, the punishment openeth those eyes which the fact hath shut. As you read of Josephs brethren, they did remain 20 years without having conscience recoil on themselves to confess their evils in selling their brother Joseph, but when Joseph laid them in a prison, then they confessed their evil, Gen. 42 21. 2And they said one to another, we are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distress come upon us.
Seas. 1 First, When God doth bring a beleever under some grievous outward affliction, then is a fit time for him to confesse sin to God. It is a saying of Gregory, Sins do ⟨p. 9⟩blinde the eyes of men when they sin,1 yet those eyes come to be opened by the punishment, the punishment openeth those eyes which the fact hath shut. As you read of Josephs brethren, they did remain 20 yeares without having conscience recoyle on themselves to confesse their vils in selling their brother Joseph, but when Joseph laid them in a prison, then they confest their evill, Gen. 42 21. 2And they said one to another, we are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soule, when he besought us, and we would not hear; therefore is this distresse come upon us.
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