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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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Third Concomitant of confession, that hath pardon annexed to it, is this, That there must be a voluntary and a free leaving of those sins which we do confess. To confess sin, yet to have a loathness in the spirit to part with it, is no real confessing of sin, Prov. 28.13. He that covereth his sin shall not prosper, but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Confession is there joined with a forsaking of sin, in case mercy be obtained. One calls confession a spiritual vomit, you know a man that is burdened in the stomach, would be willingly rid of that load on his stomach that doth oppress nature; a man that doth confess sin truly would as willingly be rid of sin on his Conscience, as a man that is sick at his Stomach would be rid of that burden which doth oppress it, such a confession ⟨p. 75⟩hath pardon annexed with it.
Third Concomitant of confession, that hath pardon annexed to it, is this, That there must be a voluntary and a free leaving of those sins which we doe confesse. To confesse sin, yet to have a lothnesse in the spirit to part with it, is no reall confessing of sin, Prov. 28.13. He that covereth his sin shall not prosper, but who so confesseth and forsaketh them shall have mercy. Confession is there joined with a forsaking of sin, in case mercy be obtained. One cals confession a spiritual vomit, you know a man that is burdned in the stomach, would be willingly rid of that load on his stomach that doth oppresse nature; a man that doth confesse sin truly would as willingly be rid of sin on his Conscience, as a man that is sick at his Stomach would be rid of that burden which doth oppresse it, such a confession ⟨p. 75⟩hath pardon annexed with it.