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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.
They were not contented with their old government, but they would alter and change it: that sin being their particular sin they were guilty of, they would single out that sin. 1Thus in 1 Chron. 21. 17. And David said unto God, is it not I, that commanded the people to be numbered? even I it is that have sinned, and done evil indeed, but as for these sheep, what have they done, &c.
They were not contented with their old government, but they would alter and change it: that sin being their particular sin they were guilty of, they would single out that sin. 1Thus in 1 Chron. 21. 17. And David said unto God, is it not I, that commanded the people to be numbred? even I it is that have sinned, and done evil indeed, but as for these sheep, what have they done, &c.
He singles out a particular sin that he then lay under the guilt of. I may say to you as the King of Assyria said to the 32. Captains, fight neither against small nor great, but against the King of Israel; so bend your confession not against small or great only, but against thy kingly lusts, against thy captain lusts that do spring from thy constitution; Thy Agag, thy Delilah, single out them, and combat against them, and bend most of thy confessions and complaints against them: do as men in a garrison, though they watch all the Battlements, and guard every passage; yet to that place, where the breach is […] widest, and where the storm is most hot, they will bend most of their strength: do thou thus, watch