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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.
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, Luk. 8. 17. For nothing is secret, that shall not be made manifest, neither any thing hid, that shall not be known, and ⟨p. 180⟩come abroad. Here a thousand things are hid that men do not know, here thou carriest it fairly, and squarely in the world, that men cannot say, black is thine Eye; but then they may say shame to thy Face; this is dreadful.
To all wicked men Christs coming again it is a terrible Doctrine, because first al the secretst sins that ever a wicked man hath committed in this world, they shal be made manifest to all. I confesse it is a contest among learned men, whether the sinnes 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 sinnes that a wicked man hath done in this world, shall bee published to all the Saints and Angels in Heaven, and all the men that were on Earth. It may bee 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 secresie here, yet then all the world shall know thy deceit and uncleannes; it is built upon that Text,