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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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Answ. 1 First, Know and consider, that mortifying grace is a consequent of pardon of sin, and therefore doth not go before it: Micah 7.18. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities &c. the promise follows, I will subdue thine iniquity, saith God, be not troubled, I have pardoned thee.
Answ. 1 First, Know and consider, that mortifying grace is a consequent of pardon of sin, and therefore doth not go before it: Micah 7.18. He will turn again, he will have compassion upon us, he will subdue our iniquities &c. the promise followes, I will subdue thine iniquitie, saith God, be not troubled, I have pardoned thee.
Answ. 2 Secondly, Thou that makest this Objection against thy self, it may be thou mistakest the nature of mortification, and ⟨p. 94⟩takest mortification to be that which it is not: as first it may be a godly Christian doth extend mortification beyond its bounds, as thus, it may be thou doest extend mortification not to a gracious suppression of sin, but to a total extirpation of sin, and thinkest that because sin is not removed, it is not subdued. Now this is a mistake: mortification doth not extend so far, but it extends to an abolition of the dominion of sin; not of the being of sin: sin will be in the heart. As the tree in Dan. 4.14. He cried aloud, and said thus: Hew down the tree, and cut off his branches, shake off his leaves, and scatter his fruit; let the beasts get away from under it, and the fowls from his branches; nevertheless leave the stump of his roots in the earth: So sin in the heart, the branches are cut off by mortification, the luxuriant buddings, and blossomings, and breakings forth of sin, they are cut off; but the stump, the root of the original sin, from which all sin flows and grows that remains. Dan 7.12. As concerning the rest of the beasts, they had their dominion taken away; yet their lives were prolonged for a season and time: Though thou beest a mortified man, yet mortification doth only take away the dominion of sin, and not the life of it; for it is prolonged for a season.