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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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Defect 1 The first Defect in confession of sin unto God is this, that when men come to confess sin to God, they have such a barrenness and confusion on their spirits, that they cannot call to remembrance their particular sins to confess them. Hildersham hath a good note descanting on them words in 1 Joh. 1.8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us. Saith he, If we say that we have no sin, there is no man so gross to say that he hath no sin, for his own practise will belie his tongue: but it is when we come to God, we do as in effect say so, when we do not know what sin to confess to God; we are so confused, and heedless in observing our own ways, that we do not know what to confess in prayer unto God, and that the Apostle condemns.
Defect 1 The first Defect in confession of sin unto God is this, that when men come to confesse sin to God, they have such a barrennesse and confusion on their spirits, that they cannot call to remembrance their particular sins to confesse them. Hildersham hath a good note descanting on them words in 1 Joh. 1.8. If we say that we have no sin, we deceive our selves, and the truth is not in us. Saith he, If we say that we have no sin, there is no man so grosse to say that he hath no sin, for his own practise will belye his tongue: but it is when we come to God, we do as in effect say so, when we do not know what sin to confesse to God; we are so confused, and heedlesse in observing our own wayes, that we do not know what to confesse in prayer unto God, and that the Apostle condemns.
This was the fault of Bellarmine, when his Confessor came unto him, Bellarmine did protest unto him, that he did not know one sin that he was guilty of to confess unto the Priest: this was heedlessness in him, for if he had observed his own ways, he would have found sins enough to have confessed: many are heedless that they do not take notice of their own evils. Beloved, ⟨p. 52⟩