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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.
Indeed wicked men fall short of this: wicked men confess their Gross and their open sins, but do dot take notice of their lesser and secret evils: there are two instances for this, one is in Cain, Cain confessed his murder, his was greater then it could be forgiven, speaking of the murder of his brother Abel, 1Gen. 4. 13. And Cain said unto unto the Lord, My punishment is greater then I can bear. He did not confess his emnity that made him murder his brother: he confessed his gross sin, but did not confess more sly and secret evils. Thus you read likewise of Judas, Judas confessed his betraying of Christ (a gross sin) but he never confessed his covetousness, a secret sin that made him betray Jesus Christ; saith he, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood: he that did bewail and confess ⟨p. 15⟩his murder in betraying Christ, did not confess and bewail his covetousness and hypocrisy, that were more lurking and secret evils. That is a second Rule, make conscience to confess small and secret evils, as well as open and grosser sins.
Indeed wicked men fall short of this: wicked men confesse their Grosse and their open sins, but do dot take notice of their lesser and secret evils: there are two instances for this, one is in Cain, Cain confest his murder, his was greater then it could be forgiven, speaking of the murder of his brother Abel, 1Gen. 4. 13. And Cain said unto unto the Lord, My punishment is greater then I can bear. He did not confesse his emnity that made him murder his brother: he confest his grosse sin, but did not confesse more slie and secret evils. Thus you read likewise of Judas, Judas confest his betraying of Christ (a grosse sin) but he never confest his covetousnesse, a secret sin that made him betrry Jesus Christ; saith he, I have sinned in betraying innocent blood: he that did bewaile and confesse ⟨p. 15⟩his murder in betraying Christ, did not confesse and bewail his covetousnesse and hypocrisie, that were more lurking and secret evils. That is a second Rule, make conscience to confesse small and secret evils, as well as open and grosser sins.