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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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Char. 2 Secondly, A pardoned man doth maintain a holy dread in his heart from committing that sin that he knoweth to be pardoned; a pardoned sinner knoweth this, that before a sin can be pardoned, it cost Christ much, and cost himself much; ⟨p. 88⟩it cost Christ much blood to expiate the guilt of that sin; it cost him many tears to destroy the power of that sin; now that sin which he hath smarted for, and Christ hath suffered for, he will not easily commit. Psal. 38. when the Psalmist said, he would declare his iniquity: then in Psal. 39. he saith, I will take heed to my ways, as if he should have said, I am sorry for my sin, and the Lord hath forgiven me mine iniquity: but here is the result of it, I will take heed to my ways, and of my sinning another time: there is no man that knoweth his sin to be pardoned, that can easily run into the commission of it again. It is an excellent expression in the book of Job 10.14. If I sin, then thou markest me, and thou wilt not acquit me from mine iniquity. If I sin, it is not here spoken absolutely and simply; for what man is he that lives and sinneth not? but if I sin as I am charged, that I should sin murmuringly and maliciously against God, and I will persist in my sin, saith Job, If I sin as they charge me, what follows? then God will not take away mine iniquity, he will not pardon my sin: as Job said of himself, you may say of your selves; if I sin obstinately, and pertinaciously, God will not pardon: thou hast been wicked, and thou wilt be so; thou hast been profane, and thou wilt be so; This is inconsistent with a pardoned state.
Char. 2 Secondly, A pardoned man doth maintain a holy dread in his heart from committing that sin that he knoweth to be pardoned; a pardoned sinner knoweth this, that before a sin can be pardoned, it cost Christ much, and cost himself much; ⟨p. 88⟩it cost Christ much bloud to expiate the guilt of that sin; it cost him many tears to destroy the power of that sin; now that sin which he hath smarted for, and Christ hath suffered for, he will not easily commit.