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The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the…
The souls cordial in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithful labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.The souls cordiall in two treatises. I. Teaching how to be eased of the guilt of sin. II. Discovering advantages by Christs ascension. The third volum. / By that faithfull labourer in the Lords vineyard Mr. Christopher Love, pastor of Lawrence Jury, London.
London: printed for Nathaniel Brooke, 1653
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Case 4 The fourth and last case is this, to confess sin to those that have been companions and co-partners with you in sin; in that case you are to go to men to confess sin as well as to God. There are some Interpreters that do expound that place in Jam. 5.16. Confess your faults one to another, that is, that those that have been partners together in sin, they should go one to another to confess their sins: if you have been a drunkard, go to thy companion, and tell him thy conscience smiteth thee for thy sin; you that have been unclean together, if God hath troubled thy conscience for thy uncleanness, why go to thy partner in sin, and tell her God hath troubled thy conscience for thy lust, and it may be this may awaken her conscience too. I remember what I have read of Augustine when God had converted him from frolic ruffian-like companions; he went to his companions and told them, Sirs, I have often been drunken with you, I have been unchaste with you, I have been as bad as you, nay worse then you; therefore I beseech you leave your wickedness. And it did grieve him, that a woman with whom he had been unclean, dyed before he was converted, so that he did never tell her how his conscience ⟨p. 50⟩smote him for his uncleanness.
Case 4 The fourth and last case is this, to confesse sin to those that have been companions and co-partners with you in sin; in that case you are to go to men to confesse sin as well as to God. There are some Interpreters that do expound that place in Jam. 5.16. Confesse your faults one to another, that is, that those that have been partners together in sin, they should goe one to another to confesse their sins: if you have been a drunkard, go to thy companion, and tell him thy conscience smiteth thee for thy sin; you that have been unclean together, if God hath troubled thy conscience for thy uncleannesse, why go to thy partner in sin, and tell her God hath troubled thy conscience for thy lust, and it may be this may awaken her conscience too. I remember what I have read of Austine when God had converted him from frolique russian-like companions; he went to his companions and told them, Sirs, I have often been drunken with you, I have been unchast with you, I have been as bad as you, nay worse then you; therefore I beseech you leave your wickednesse. And it did grieve him, that a woman with whom he had been unclean, dyed before he was converted, so that he did never tell her how his conscience