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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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Secondly, that confession which hath pardon annexed to it is a penitential confession, a confession that hath sorrow of heart mixed with it, Psalm. 38.18. For I will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin: True confession of sin is rather a voice of mourning, then a voice of words, it hath ever a sorrow and grief of heart joined with it; That prescription, that God gave to the Leper in the Law, that he should be cleansed from his leprosy, and in Levit. 13.45. And the Leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and he shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry Unclean, unclean, is worth your notice, he was to cry twice, I am unclean, I am unclean; there was his confession, but what was joined with his confession before he ⟨p. 74⟩could be cleansed? Two things he must do, First, he must rent his clothes, to note, that God must have brokenness of heart, and sorrow of heart joined with confession of sin. Secondly, he must cover his lip, to note shame that must be mingled with his sorrow, to show, that to us that have an unclean leprosy of sin in us, the crying I am unclean, unclean, is not enough; but there must be the renting of the heart, and shame of face; these must be mingled with those confessions that have a connection with forgiveness.
Secondly, that confession which hath pardon annexed to it is a penitentiall confession, a confession that hath sorrow of heart mixt with it, Psalm. 38.18. For I will declare mine iniquity, I will be sorry for my sin: True confession of sin is rather a voice of mourning, then a voice of words, it hath ever a sorrow and grief of heart joined with it; That prescription, that God gave to the Leper in the Law, that he should be clensed from his leprosie, and in Levit. 13.45. And the Leper in whom the plague is, his clothes shall be rent, and his head bare, and hee shall put a covering upon his upper lip, and shall cry Ʋnclean, unclean, is worth your notice, he was to cry twice, I am unclean, I am unclean; there was his confession, but what was joined with his confession before hee