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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.
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 ⟨p. 14⟩every sin, and watch every failing of thy life, but bend most of thy confession to God against those lusts that do most enslave and subject thee.
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 onely, but against thy kingly lusts, against thy captain lusts that do spring from thy constitution; Thy Agag, thy Dalilah, 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 Battailments, 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: doe thou thus, watch ⟨p. 14⟩every sinne, and watch every failing of thy life, but bend most of thy confession to God against those lusts that do most enslave and subject thee.
Rule 2 A second rule to guide thee in the matter of confession of sin to God is this: Make conscience to confess your small and secret evils as well as your open and grosser sins. Our secret sins, saith the Prophet, are in the light of thy countenance,