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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
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To the Christian Reader.
THE extraordinary acceptance which Mr Love's books have found with sober and solid Christians, as it hath occasioned the publishing of more treatises of his, then was at first intended, so it hath emboldened some without our knowledge and consent, to thrust forth some imperfect Copies under Mr Love's name; concerning which we will only say, that the want of our attestation (to whose care the publishing of his sermons were entrusted) is ground enough to render them as suspected and suppositious to the serious and deliberate Reader.
THE extraordinary acceptance which Mr Love's books have found with sober and solid Christians, as it hath occasioned the publishing of more treatises of his, then was at first intended, so it hath imboldned some without our knowledge and consent, to thrust forth some imperfect Copies under Mr Love's name; concerning which we will only say, that the want of our attestation (to whose care the publishing of his sermons were intrusted) is ground enough to render them as suspected and suppositious to the serious and deliberate Reader.
Amongst some other Sermons of Mr Love's, which have been printed by imperfect Copies, These two Treatises had the unhappiness to be very hastily and unhandsomely published, being never perused by any of us, or compared with his own Notes.