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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.
Seventhly, To aggravate it further, he was mad against them, and I was exceedingly mad against them; he was mad with rage, and with passion, and with fury against the Saints of God.
Seventhly, To aggravate it further, he was mad against them, and I was exceedingly mad against them; hee was mad with rage, and with passion, and with fury against the Saints of God.
Eighthly, I did persecute them to strange Cities; them I did not kill, I made them leave their Wives and Children, and made them run and shift for their lives into strange corners. This is the nature of a true penitent, not to confess sin slightly and carelessly, but in confession of sin to clothe his sins with all aggravations that can be; In confession of sin we should aggravate it that we have sinned against mercies, correction, warnings, resolutions, checks of conscience, motions of the Spirit, &c. and this is a good Rule if you will follow it: You have the like instance in the book of Daniel chap. 9. v. 5.1 We have sinned and have committed iniquity, and have done wickedly, and have rebelled, even by departing from thy precepts, and from thy judgements. Vers. 6. vers 6 Neither have we hearkened unto thy servants the Prophets, which spake in thy name to our Kings, our Princes and our Fathers, and to all the people of the Land. There are seven circumstances that Daniel useth in confessing of his sin, to aggravate his sin; how doth Daniel clothe his confession? First, We have sinned, there is one. Secondly, We have committed iniquity. Thirdly, We have done wickedly. Fourthly, We have rebelled against thee. Fifthly, We have departed from thy precepts. Sixthly, We have not hearkened unto thy servants. Seventhly, Nor we nor our Princes, nor all the people of the Land: There are seven aggravations which Daniel reckoned ⟨p. 17⟩up to his confession: Thus David when he would beg pardon prayed; for thy names sake pardon my iniquity for it is great: that is a third Rule about confession.