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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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Object. 1 Now lest this Objection might lurk in the heart of any man that hears me, I will turn the scales. And that no man might be presumptuous and entertain false persuasions touching pardon; I shall show you, that though a godly man may have his conscience out of office to smite him for sin; yet in that case there is great difference between a pardoned sinner and an unpardoned, there are these five particular differences.
Object. 1 Now lest this Objection might lurk in the heart of any man that hears me, I will turn the scales. And that no man might be presumptuous and entertain false perswasions touching pardon; I shall shew you, that though a godly man may have his conscience out of office to smite him for sin; yet in that case there is great difference between a pardoned sinner and an unpardoned, there are these five particular differences.
First, Though a pardoned man may have sometimes conscience asleep, yet that pardoned man dares not be so bold and adventurous to fin against conscience as wicked men do: you have this fully laid down in Scripture, though but darkly, Lev. 13.10. And the Priest shall see him, and be hold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, &c. Here were two symptoms of the plague of Leprosy, the growing of white hair in the s•re, then, raw flesh in the rising: the Hebrew Rabbins do understand two things by this Law,
First, Though a pardoned man may have sometimes conscience asleep, yet that pardoned man dares not be so bold and adventurous to fin against conscience as wicked men do: you have this fully laid down in Scripture, though but darkly, Lev. 13.10. And the Priest shall see him, and be hold, if the rising be white in the skin, and it have turned the hair white, and there be quick raw flesh in the rising, &c. Here were two symptomes of the plague of Leprosie, the growing of white hair in the sre, then, raw flesh in the rising: the Hebrew Rabbins do understand two things by this Law,