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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, In regard of means as a way to get pardon: God is the efficient cause, and Christ is the meritorious cause of pardon; but yet confession of sin is that cause which Logicians call (Causa sine qua non) without which pardon of sin shall never be obtained, 1I confessed and thou forgavest.
Secondly, In regard of means as a way to get pardon: God is the efficient cause, and Christ is the meritorious cause of pardon; but yet confession of sin is that cause which Logicians call (Causa sine qua non) without which pardon of sin shall never be obtained, 1I confest and thou forgavest.
- 1Causa sine qua non.
Answ. 3 A third answer, Though no man can be pardoned for his confession, yet no man shall have pardon without confession: Repent that your sins may be blotted out, Act. 3. No blotting out of sin without repentance; there must be a sorrow and a bewailing of sin before it can be pardoned; that Christ was broken from sin, it will no ways exempt you from being broken for sin; though Christ was a man of sorrows, and all in a way of satisfaction, yet you must shed tears for sin in a way of contrition and humiliation.
Answ. 4 Lastly, This connection between confessing sin and Gods forgiving sin, is not as if our confession did bear any proportion in a way of satisfaction to Gods forgiving of sin; though God doth forgive sin upon confession, yet it is not for confession; there is more evil in thy sin that is an offence to God, then there can be good in thy confession; And thus