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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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First, it is a free and ingenuous confession, not extorted by force, not with sinful reserves, but a free, asul, & ingenuous confession, that is the meaning of that phrase, Psa. 32.21. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth not iniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guile; ⟨p. 73⟩Guile is not there taken largely in opposition to hypocrisy, but for a sinful reserve of sin, when a man will not be free and open in confessing his sin unto God; David would freely & fully open himself & confess his evils unto God; that confession that is a free and ingenuous confession, it hath pardon of sin annexed to it the confessions of them that roll sin under the tongue, as a sweet morsel that they would not part with, have not justification entailed on them; those confessions only are connected with forgiveness that are ingenuous and free.
First, it is a free and ingenuous confession, not extorted by force, not with sinful reserves, but a free, asul, & ingenuous confession, that is the meaning of that phrase, Psa. 32.21. Blessed is the man to whom the Lord imputeth notiniquity, and in whose spirit there is no guil; ⟨p. 73⟩Guile is not there taken largely in opposition to hypocrisie, but for a sinfull reserve of sin, when a man will not be free and open in confessing his sin unto God; David would freely & fully open himself & confess his evils unto God; that confession that is a free and ingenuous confession, it hath pardon of sin annexed to it the confessions of them that rowle sin under the tongue, as a sweet morsell that they would not part with, have not justification entailed on them; those confessions onely are connected with forgivenesse that are ingenuous and free.