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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.
First see hence, that not only wicked men must confess sin; but regenerate men, pardoned men. It is no servile, no slavish, no legal work. Though the lowest Believer be above the power of sin, yet the highest Believer is not above the confession of sin; because not above the ⟨p. 12⟩practice of sin. As long as men continue acting of sin men must never leave confessing of sin: as long as sin leaks into thy soul, thou must so long be pumping; confession is to the soul as a pump to the ship. O what leaks into thy heart by heedlessness and carelessness, pump out by confession. Till thou art above the actings of sin, thou art not above the confessing of sin: as long as the body natural doth gather corrupt humours, so long there must be Purges and Vomits: if the body should still be gathering corrupt humours, nature would be stifled by these humours; thou art gathering sin to sin, thou art adding iniquity to iniquity: confession is a spiritual Purge, it doth cleanse and purge the heart; see therefore the great need that even pardoned men have to confess their faults.
First see hence, that not only wicked men must confesse sin; but regenerate men, pardoned men. It is no servile, no slavish, no legal work. Though the lowest Beleever be above the power of sin, yet the highest Beleever is not above the confession of sin; because not above the ⟨p. 12⟩practice of sin. As long as men continue acting of sinne men must never leave confessing of sin: as long as sinne leaks into thy soule, thou must so long be pumping; confession is to the soule as a pump to the ship. O what leaks into thy heart by heedlesnesse and carelesness, pump out by confession. Till thou art above the actings of sinne, thou art not above the confessing of sinne: as long as the body natural doth gather corrupt humours, so long there must be Purges and Vomits: if the body should still be gathering corrupt humours, nature woulb bestfled by these humours; thou art gathering sin to sin, thou art adding iniquity to iniquity: confession is a spiritual Purge, it doth cleanse and purge the heart; see therefore the great need that even pardoned men have to confesse their faults.