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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.
Rule 3 Third Rule touching confession of sin unto God is this, When you confess and acknowledge secretly your sins unto God, labour to greaten your sins with all the heinous circumstances and heart-humbling aggravations you can imagine. Thus the servants of God used to do, when they confessed sin unto God, they would confess sin with all the heinous circumstances, 1 Kings 8. 47. Saying, We have sinned, and have done perversely, we have committed wickedness. Saith Lorinus, Mark what a heap of words a heart-humbled soul will lay together in confessing of sin; We have sinned, there is one word; We have done wickedly, there is a second; and we have done perversely, there is a third. A notable instance you have of Paul in Act. 26. 10, 11. 1Which thing I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the Saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief Priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange Cities.
Rule 3 Third Rule touching confession of sin unto God is this, When you confesse and acknowledge secretly your sins unto God, labour to greaten your sins with all the heinous circumstances and heart-humbling aggravations you can imagin. Thus the servants of God used to do, when they confest sin unto God, they would confesse sin with all the heinous circumstances, 1 Kings 8. 47. Saying, We have sinned, and have done perversly, we have committed wickedness. Saith Lorinus, Mark what a heap of words a heart-humbled soul will lay together in confessing of sin; We have sinned, there is one word; We have done wickedly, there is a second; and we have done perversly, there is a third. A notable instance you have of Paul in Act. 26. 10, 11. 1Which thing I also did in Jerusalem, and many of the Saints did I shut up in prison, having received authority from the chief Priests; and when they were put to death, I gave my voice against them. And I punished them oft in every Synagogue, and compelled them to blaspheme, and being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange Cities.