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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.
Use. Now a word of Application. Having showed you how this Doctrine of Christs coming, it is a Doctrine of comfort, I shall finish this point in showing you how this Doctrine of Christs coming, is a Doctrine of terror and of dread, and to whom. It is observable that the word is not compared only to Milk and Honey, but the word is compared also to Salt, which also hath an efficacy to make smart. Beloved, you have heard the Honey of this Doctrine, what great comfort it will afford to Godly men, but remember the word is Salt also, and it is of a smart efficacy to terrify and fret the conscience.
Use. Now a word of Application. Having shewed you how this Doctrine of Christs coming, it is a Doctrine of comfort, I shall finish this point in shewing you how this Doctrine of Christs coming, is a Doctrine of terrour and of dread, and to whom. It is observeable that the word is not compared onely to Milke and Honey, but the word is compared also to Salt, which also hath an efficacy to make smart. Beloved, you have heard the Hony of this Doctrine, what great comfort it will afford to Godly men, but remember the word is Salt also, and it is of a smart efficacy to terrifie and fret the conscience.
Now the Doctrine of Christs coming, it is a terrible Doctrine in these four things.
To all wicked men Christs coming again it is a terrible Doctrine, because first all the secretest sins that ever a wicked man hath committed in this world, they shall be made manifest to all. I confess it is a contest among learned men, whether the sins of good men as well as bad shall not be known, and there are strong arguments that all shall be made known, but the Scripture is full in this, that at the day of Judgement, the sins that a wicked man hath done in this world, shall be published to all the Saints and Angels in Heaven, and all the men that were on Earth. It may be thou goest for an honest man amongst thy Neighbours, yet thou lovest thy Neighbours wife, and goest in unto her; if thou hast been so, or thou hast deceived in thy Trade, why for all thy secrecy here, yet then all the world shall know thy deceit and uncleanness; it is built upon that Text,