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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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Thirdly, Though our sins can do no injury to God, to make God unholy, or to make God unhappy; yet sin doth great injury to your selves; if thou beest sinful, what wilt thou do against God? why, thou canst not bring God out of heaven, though thou mayest bring thy self into hell, God receives no diminution of his holiness, of his wisdom, of his glory, by thy sinfulness, yet thou shalt not have glory, holiness, happiness, heaven, nor eternal life, thou shalt receive miseries by thine own sins; And thus I have done with the Doctrinal part of this point; to wit, that there is a necessary connection, between mens confessing sin and Gods act in forgiving of sin.
Thirdly, Though our sins can doe no injury to God, to make God unholy, or to make God unhappy; yet sin doth great injury to your selves; if thou beest sinfull, what wilt thou doe against God? why, thou canst not bring God out of heaven, though thou maist bring thy self into hell, God receives no diminution of his holinesse, of his wisdom, of his glory, by thy sinfulnesse, yet thou shalt not have glory, holinesse, happinesse, heaven, nor eternall life, thou shalt receive miseries by thine own sins; And thus I have done with the Doctrinall part of this point; to wit, that there is a necessary connexion, between mens confessing sin and Gods act in forgiving of sin.
I now come to the Use, which is for ⟨p. 83⟩trial, to put you on a diligent enquiry, how you may know whether God hath brought you into a pardoned estate, and hath forgiven the iniquity of your sin; how may it be known whether God hath forgiven you your iniquities? There are ten ways to discover this, I shall divide them into this order, there are six Concomitants, that do attend a person in a pardoned estate, and four characters laid down in Scripture of a man whose sin is forgiven him. First, the Concomitants or those things in the Scripture which do attend or accompany a person whose sin is forgiven.
I now come to the Use, which is for