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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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Fourthly, Pardon of sin is expressed in Scripture by acquitting of a man from his iniquity, Job 10.14. If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not, or, acquit me (not set me free) from mine iniquity. Acquitting is equivalent to a term of Law, giving you a ⟨p. 69⟩discharge and dismission of the Court; the Lord in pardoning of sin, gives a man a legal discharge, that no proceedings of heaven shall go against him.
Fourthly, Pardon of sin is expressed in Scripture by acquitting of a man from his iniquity, Job 10.14. If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not, or, acquit me (not set me free) from mine iniquity. Acquitting is equivalent to a term of Law, giving you a ⟨p. 69⟩discharge and dismission of the Court; the Lord in pardoning of sin, gives a man a legall discharge, that no proceedings of heaven shall goe against him.
Fifthly, Pardon of sin is called in Scripture a covering of sin, Psal. 32.1. Blessed is he whose transgression is forgiven, whose sin is covered. Beloved, if pardon of sin had consisted in the removing of sin, we had been undone, pardon of sin doth not consist in the removal of all sin out of a man, but in the covering of sin; God will hide sin, that the fierceness of his wrath, and the Eye of his indignation shall not look on it to condemnation. It is the same word that refers to garments, [Greek or Hebrew]. If a man hath a Mole or Wen on his body which his garment covers, these infirmities are not seen by men. Beloved, God covers sin as with a garment, to wit, with the long robe of Christs righteousness, sin is covered in thee by the righteousness of Jesus Christ.