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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 4 A fourth Rule in confession of sin is this, In your confessions look not discouragingly on God as an angry Judge, but hopefully, as on a displeased Father; to confess sin to God as an angry Judge, is to make you but condemned Malefactors in your confessions; therefore make confession to God only as a displeased Father: converted men do confess sin to God as a Father: whilst you have an eye of sorrow upon sin, you are to have an eye of hope upon pardon, thus Gods people did in their confessions. To confess sin to God as a Judge, is to howl like dogs because you shall be beaten: but to confess sin to God as an angry Father, is child-like with a fiducial confidence of pardon.1 Dan. 9. 9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him. And thus Shechaniah confesseth sin unto God, Ezra 10. 2. And Shechaniah the Son of Jehiel,2 one of the Sons of Elam, answered and said unto Ezra, We have trespassed against our God, &c.
Rule 4 A fourth Rule in confession of sin is this, In your confessions look not discouragingly on God as an angry Judge, but hopefully, as on a displeased Father; to confesse sin to God as an angry Judge, is to make you but condemned Malefactors in your confessions; therefore make confession to God only as a displeased Father: converted men do confesse sin to God as a Father: whilest you have an eye of sorrow upon sin, you are to have an eye of hope upon pardon, thus Gods people did in their confessions. To confesse sin to God as a Judge, is to howl like dogs because you shall be beaten: but to confesse sin to God as an angry Father, is child-like with a fiducial confidence of pardon.1 Dan. 9. 9. To the Lord our God belong mercies and forgivenesses, though we have rebelled against him. And thus Shechaniah confesseth sin unto God, Ezra 10. 2. And Shechaniah the Son of Jehiel,